Puritans

Daughter and wife of Calvinist clergymen, she was a fervent, Bible-based Anglican or Puritan .

She grew up in a strict Puritan , English household. Before she was ten she suffered religious fears: I was so filled with fears and doubts, that I could take no delight in any thing...

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...

EW published The Old and Good Way Vindicated, a pamphlet defending established Puritan practice against the innovations of radicals.

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 .

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...

EW was apparently a conservative, Puritan Englishwoman of the gentry or professional class. She belonged to the Church ofEngland ; she attacks both sectaries and Catholics. In politics she was a monarchist.

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...