Puritans

Having had religious struggles as a child, AB found her heart rose (that is, rebelliously) at the Puritan community of New England. But after I was convinced it was the way of God, I submitted...

This hilarious comedy is set in Rome, with a conspicuously stupid, lustful, and venial puritan clergyman guyed as Tickletext, in transparent allusion to Titus Oates and the Popish Plot. The three heroines all...

In the earliest generation a puritan New England woman marries an Italian prince who turns out to be a philanderer. Their daughter is restless and unsettled, with an active sex-life which her mother cannot bring...

The protagonist, whose mother was a female rake and whose grandmother was a Yankee puritan , has become a successful writer and reached the age of fifty, but she is still troubled with guilt over...

Hers was the first name that Bunyan entered as joining this Puritan congregation, not long after his release from prison under the terms of Charles II 's Declaration of Indulgence (promulgated on 15 March 1672)...

Her upper-class family were Protestants at a time when this was a bold thing to be, both in religious and intellectual terms. She became, like her parents, a fervent Puritan .

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...

While living with her mother she suffered a period of religious questioning which deepened into spiritual despair. She recovered by reading the works of PuritanRobert Bolton , where she found a passage that directly...