Puritans

AL was born into the flourishing urban bourgeoisie of her time. She was apparently English, though the names of both her parents suggest Welsh extraction. Her father said he was neither Lutheran nor yet Tyndalin...

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...

LH 's mother, born Lucy St John, came from a family with a strong Puritan tradition, and was the third wife of her husband. She learned medical knowledge and skills from Sir Walter Ralegh

LAC says her mother (born Lady Margaret Russell , daughter of the second Earl of Bedford) had read most books of worth translated into English, the only language she knew. She was a devout...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (though...

AB 's family moved again, from Sempringham in Lincolnshire to Boston in the same county, a centre of Puritan activity.

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...

In the following year, 1952, and under the same pseudonym, JP shifted her historical lens for the novel Daughter of Satan, which examines the persecution of witches and Puritans in the 16th and 17th...

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

She worked hard at the research for this book, which she dedicated to John Addington Symonds . She found her pen could not glide through it as with everyday tales. She worried about...