Puritans

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Cultural formation Elizabeth Joscelin
EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Anne Clifford
LAC says her mother (born Lady Margaret Russell , daughter of the second Earl of Bedford) had read most books of worth translated into English,
Clifford, Lady Anne. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents. Editor Gilson, Julius Parnell, Roxburghe Club.
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the only language she knew. She was a devout...
Family and Intimate relationships Brilliana, Lady Harley
At the time of their wedding (held in the Court milieu of Greenwich), Sir Robert had no children surviving from the total of ten born during his first two marriages. Friends thought he had...
Family and Intimate relationships Lucy Hutchinson
LH 's mother, born Lucy St John, came from a family with a strong Puritan tradition, and was the third wife of her husband.
Hutchinson, Lucy. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Editor Sutherland, James, Oxford University Press.
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Greer, Germaine. “Horror like Thunder”. London Review of Books, pp. 22-4.
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She learned medical knowledge and skills from Sir Walter Ralegh
Intertextuality and Influence Lydia Maria Child
The idea came to her from reading a call by John Gorham Palfrey for fiction to be made from early American, Puritan history, and it was inspired by Yamoyden, 1820, a verse narrative of...
Literary Setting Lydia Maria Child
The book is titled from its self-effacing Native American hero, who marries the heroine, Mary Conant, when her fiancé Charles Brown is believed lost at sea. When Charles returns as if from the grave, Hobomok...
Literary Setting Jean Plaidy
JP , or Carr, does not trace the same families throughout her sequence, though often a particular family binds together several novels. Saraband for Two Sisters (1976) sets identical twin sisters amid the religious strife...
Occupation Anne Bacon
Some years after Elizabeth came to the throne, AB entertained the queen at Gorhambury. She was also an active patron of young Puritan clergymen and a protector of those whose radical beliefs made them suspect...
Author summary Elizabeth Warren
EW , active at the mid seventeenth century, is a learned writer who fills her three Puritan theological pamphlets with strongly structured argument and with Latin notes and references in the margins. Her polemic has...
Publishing Elizabeth Melvill
The title-page this time shows the royal arms. This undated edition is associated by Rebecca Laroche with the Hampton Court Conference of Anglican bishops at which James I pronounced No Bishop, no King
Laroche, Rebecca. “Elizabeth Melville and Her Friends: Seeing ‘Ane Godlie Dreame’ through Political Lenses”. CLIO, Vol.
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, No. 3, pp. 277-95.
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(though...
Residence Anne Bradstreet
AB 's family moved again, from Sempringham in Lincolnshire to Boston in the same county, a centre of Puritan activity.
Bradstreet, Anne. “The Introduction”. The Complete Works of Anne Bradstreet, edited by Joseph R. McElrath and Allan P. Robb, Twayne, p. xi - xlii.
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Textual Features Dinah Mulock Craik
Its heroine bears the unusual name of Silence—pronounced in the French, not the English manner, since she has grown up in the Swiss Alps and lived there all her life, teaching music for a living...
Textual Production Elizabeth Warren
EW published The Old and Good Way Vindicated, a pamphlet defending established Puritan practice against the innovations of radicals.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Textual Production Rose Macaulay
Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans
Textual Production Elizabeth Warren
EW published Spiritual Thrift; or, Meditations Wherein Humble Christians (as in a Mirrour) May View the Verity of Their Saving Graces, a Puritan devotional pamphlet which attacks both Catholics and sectaries .
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

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