John Foxe

AA was bound upright to die, because her legs were dislocated.John Foxe later wrote about the three men burned with her: It happened well for them, that they died together with Anne Askewe...

The English Martyrology, an abridgement of John Foxe 's Book of Martyrs by Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) was published in two volumes.

Critic Elaine V. Beilin discerns the influence on AD 's text of John Foxe 's Actes and Monuments, 1563. Her comment on the martyrdom of de Bourg is particularly explicit in its critique...

It reflects her theological interests, containing—for instance—paraphrases from Calvin 's Institutes of the Christian Religion, from works by William Perkins , and the sermons of the local vicar. She translated part...

Many critics have, justifiably, called MK 's Book the first autobiography in English. Karma Lochrie , however, argues that it is a fictional narrative of which she is the imaginary heroine, while Stephen R. Reimer

Knowledge of AA 's writing spread rapidly. The reactionary Stephen Gardiner , Bishop of Winchester, complained on 6 June 1547 of the number of copies in circulation.John Foxe gave it a still wider...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...