John Foxe

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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