John Foxe

She wrote original poetry all her life, though individual pieces are hard to date. Bradner , editor of her poems, counts them as six certain and ten doubtful, besides six verse translations. Some of...

MBF mentions her early reading (or looking at the pictures in) Foxe 's Book of Martyrs. The strongest influence on her during her teens was Mrs Lefevre , a Methodist, whose letters were posthumously...

One of the earliest books that Marie could remember was Pierre et Pierrette, a celebrated little text written by her grandmother Belloc to improve the education of French village children. She grew up conscious...

Lucy spent most of her childhood with her siblings, cared for by a nurse, under-nurse and governess in the third-floor nursery. Their Sunday play consisted of reading the New Testament, Bunyan (Pilgrim's...

Lady Sharington employed a governess named Hamblyn for her daughters, who was a niece of her husband. Mrs Hamblyn took great pains with the character and moral training of her charges, and taught Grace some...

Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch 's Lives and Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare

After her discovery of literature, CC 's early reading included many pious books: Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, and Lives of the Saints. She also read widely in...

MC writes, No Learning ever was bestow'd on me; / My Life was always spent in Drudgery. But she learned to read very early, and continued learning into adult life. She later listed her...

Although Lady Tyrwhit was a cousin by marriage of Katherine Parr , their shared allegiance to the reformed religion was probably the key to their relationship. The Protestant historian John Foxe wrote that Elizabeth Tyrwhit...

The Burges children's father, though he is against Pusey ism, is broad-minded about Puseyites as he is in other respects: visitors to their house include not only Anglicans but Moravians , a Baptist ...

She began writing the book on 18 September 1826 and completed it on 19 November of the following year. The book is based on historical records of the times it attempted to portray...

The novel's treatment of religious tension at a time when the English public was debating Catholic Emancipation proved extremely scandalous. As a result, AEB became the target of much anger. The Athenæum...

Her needlework included doing Irish stitch, tent stitch, and purse-work, making bone lace and bodices, and knitting stockings, and she often gathered flowers in order to copy them in stitching. It is clear...

Elizabeth's youth was lived in the shadow of national power politics. Her younger brother succeeded her father as king. The year she turned twenty he died, and Lady Jane Grey , placed on the throne...

ENC published with the Gallery Press (founded just two years before this in Dublin) her first poetry volume, Acts and Monuments, which daringly borrows the title of John Foxe 's Actes and Monuments...