Puritans

In The Decline of Merry EnglandSJ produced a strange little book, variously called a critical history of Puritanism and of the English Civil War.

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...

Caleb Field: A Tale of the Puritans, the third novel by Margaret Wilson (later MO ), was published as by the author of Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland.

CT has some fun with her persona as a day of the week. Her letter develops as a riddle with clues such as: The laborious poor every where blest my appearance: they do so still...

A historical novel set in colonial Massachusetts during the years 1675–78, the time of King Philip's war between the natives and settlers in New England, Hope Leslie focuses on a young arrival from England and...

Jordan, a young man dragged from the mud of the River Thames as a baby, sails off to seek his fortune with a botanist who brings rare plants back to England. He falls in love...