William Laud

MM lays proud stress on her gentle birth. She is equally positive, however, in her sentiments about the marriages which allied her with a different rank, that of the mercantile bourgeoisie of London. She was...

As early as 1830 she had found some of his sermons unacceptably High Church. From then on their relationship was, writes literary historian Kathleen Tillotson , the clash of . . . two strong...

In Lichfield, with some local women, Susan Walker and Marie Noble , LED discussed resistance to Laud 's current reforms of the Church of England . At Lichfield Cathedral the altar had been moved away...

The burning was ordered by Archbishop Laud and the Court of High Commission , in spite of support for LED from Charles I 's sister, Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia . LED was sentenced to imprisonment...

This is another English Civil War story, in which imaginary characters (a pair of courting lovers, a villain, the noble-hearted Charlotte who is based on EL 's nurse during her childhood, and Joscelyn Heyworth and...

Sixty midwives participated in this action, though it is not known who wrote the petition. It was presented to the king , the College of Physicians , and the Archbishop of Canterbury .

The letters of this correspondence, even more verbally demonstrative than those to her husband, also teem with good advice about diet, exercise, and learning. When her son arrives at university, BLH urges him to read...