John Foxe

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Standard Name: Foxe, John

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Textual Features Brilliana, Lady Harley
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.
Eales, Jacqueline. Puritans and Roundheads. Cambridge University Press.
25, 43, 49
She translated part...
Intertextuality and Influence Anna Eliza Bray
She began writing the book on 18 September 1826 and completed it on 19 November of the following year.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 51
The book is based on historical records of the times it attempted to portray...
Literary responses Anna Eliza Bray
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.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 52
Bray, Anna Eliza. Autobiography of Anna Eliza Bray. Editor Kempe, John A., Chapman and Hall.
203
The Athenæum...
Education Lucy Boston
Lucy spent most of her childhood with her siblings, cared for by a nurse, under-nurse and governess in the third-floor nursery.
Boston, Lucy et al. Memories. Colt Books with Diana Boston Hemingford Gray.
22-3, 40
Their Sunday play consisted of reading the New Testament, Bunyan (Pilgrim's...
Violence Anne Askew
AA was bound upright to die, because her legs were dislocated.
Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press.
191
John Foxe later wrote about the three men burned with her: It happened well for them, that they died together with Anne Askewe...
Reception Anne Askew
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.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press.
xxviii-xxix
John Foxe gave it a still wider...

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