Eales, Jacqueline. Puritans and Roundheads. Cambridge University Press.
25, 43, 49
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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 |
Textual Features | Brilliana, Lady Harley | 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... |
Textual Production | Catherine Carswell | At the time of her death, CC
was researching a biography of Calvin
and had been engaged to help Susan Tweedsmuir
on the sorting of John Buchan
's papers. Carswell's work on the papers formed... |
Textual Production | Queen Elizabeth I | In her early teens Elizabeth (like her contemporary Jane Lumley
) often presented translations she had made as new year's gifts to members of her family. The writers whom she rendered into English included champions... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rose Hickman | Anne Locke
was the first translator of John Calvin
into English, and probably author of the first sonnet sequence in English. The sisters-in-law were close both intellectually and emotionally, and corresponded when they were living... |
Textual Features | Lucy Hutchinson | The first five cantos of this poem in rhyming couplets (all that was printed in 1679) cover the first three chapters of the book of Genesis, ending with a firm gesture of closure. Meditations... |
Textual Production | Lucy Hutchinson | In about 1667-8 LH
wrote notes from Calvin
's Institutes (planning a study of them), and recorded her opinions on theological topics like church governance, baptism (as child or adult), predestination, self-examination, perfectibility (which she... |
Friends, Associates | Anne Locke | AL
was also a friend of Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk
(who shared her religious exile in Geneva before moving on to Lithuania), and of Catherine Killigrew, née Cooke
. Her later collaboration with Killigrew... |
Textual Features | Anne Locke | AL
's title-page quotes from Saint Paul
's Epistle to the Romans: The spirit beareth witnesse to our spirit that wee are the sons of God . . . . The sentence goes on... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Locke | Someone entered in the Stationers' RegisterAL
's English versions of four sermons by John Calvin
on the 38th chapter of Isaiah, printed that year with her initials, dedication, and sonnets expanding a psalm. Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Textual Features | Susanna Watts | Ephemera of all kinds have been bound in: family anecdotes, a letter of William Cowper
of 1788, a Hindu Primer (or alphabet), a railway ticket of 1839, women's parliamentary petitions against slavery of 1833 (one... |
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