Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Anna Williams | When AW
felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England
's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up. |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic
faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism
. (As the Puritan John Field
put it... |
| Cultural formation | Joanna Southcott | At Christmas either this year or the previous one JS
joined the Methodists
, but they rebuffed her when she began talking about the Spirit. The Church of England
also responded with hostility to her... |
| Cultural formation | Rachel Hunter | From her writings, it appears that she was a member of the merchant or trading classes, of Anglican
religion and conservative political opinions. |
| Cultural formation | Caroline Leakey | CL
was a member of a pious middle-class evangelical Anglican
family who were presumably white and of English descent. She herself was a devoted Christian who participated in evangelical and missionary endeavours. Walker, Shirley. “Wild and Wilful Women: Caroline Leakey and The Broad ArrowA Bright and Fiery Troop, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin Books Australia, 1988, pp. 85-99. 85 Pike, Douglas, editor. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press, 1966–2024, 16 vols. 5 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Frances Billington | English by birth and presumably white, she was raised in the Church of England
, a religious upbringing that reflected her father's and grandfather's occupations as Church of England clergymen. Tuson, Penelope. The Queen’s Daughters: An Anthology of Victorian Feminist Writings on India, 1857-1900. Ithaca Press, 1995, http://University of Waterloo - Porter. 295 |
| Cultural formation | Margaret Cavendish | She has sometimes been said to be a Catholic (perhaps because her husband's family had long had leanings that way); but she was an Anglican
who explained in her Philosophical Letters that she followed the... |
| Cultural formation | James Anthony Froude | He gradually lost faith in High Church
tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle
. JAF
was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and... |
| Cultural formation | Fay Weldon | Brought up as an atheist, FW
belonged for most of her life to no organized religion, but admitted to believing in manifestations like ghosts haunting the scenes of terrible or painful events (terrors in a... |
| Cultural formation | Sarah Trimmer | Born into the English professional class, she was a fevent Anglican
, godly from her childhood onwards. Feminist Companion Archive. |
| Cultural formation | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAB was baptised into the Church of England
. Her religious belief was broad-minded, liberal, tolerant. Faced with the Evangelical tendencies of the family of her future husband, who disapproved of many of her Sunday... |
| Cultural formation | Anne Halkett | Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH
emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class. Halkett, Anne et al. “The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 9-87. 9-10 |
| Cultural formation | Penelope Mortimer | Welsh by birth (although she lived her adult life in England and the USA), she was, as a clergyman's daughter, brought up in the Church of England
. Her father's Communist affiliation seems not to... |
| Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | MF
was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Cultural formation | Flora Thompson |
Timeline
By 31 May 1641: Milton entered (anonymously) the ideological...
National or international item
By 31 May 1641
Milton
entered (anonymously) the ideological battle surrounding episcopacy (government of the Church of England
by bishops) with the first of his five anti-prelatical pamphlets, Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Milton
By June 1643: The Westminster Assembly was set up by the...
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By June 1643
The Westminster Assembly was set up by the Long Parliament to reform the English Church
.
Cannon, John, editor. The Oxford Companion to British History. Revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2002.
977
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Theodore Bathurst
1644: The English Parliament suppressed the Anglican...
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1644
The English Parliament suppressed the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
274, 304, 366
4 January 1645: The official Directory for Public Worship,...
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4 January 1645
The official Directory for Public Worship, doing away with every feast or fast of the Church of England
except Sunday, was published on this day, though it was not distributed until August.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
238-9
Before October 1646: Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48)...
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Before October 1646
Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw
(1613?-48) published his Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
27 November 1655: Cromwell issued an edict prohibiting Church...
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27 November 1655
Cromwell
issued an edict prohibiting Church of England
ministers from any preaching or teaching.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
365
Probably 1659: Margaret Abbott, a convert from the Church...
Women writers item
Probably 1659
Margaret Abbott
, a convert from the Church of England
to the Baptists
, published with her name her only text, A Testimony against the False Teachers of this Generation.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
19 May 1662: The Act of Uniformity made use of the revised...
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19 May 1662
The Act of Uniformity made use of the revised Book of Common Prayer compulsory in England and Wales; it came into use within three months.
Collinson, Patrick. “Holy-Rowly-Powliness”. London Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2001, pp. 33-4.
33
July 1664: The Conventicle Act prohibited assembling...
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July 1664
The Conventicle Act prohibited assembling for worship anywhere other than in an Anglican
church.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
315
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
302
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xii
15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...
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15 March 1672
Charles II
promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence, repealing all penal laws in force against nonconformist
s or recusants
in England. This was, however, withdrawn after a year.
“The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672”. Humanities Web: History.
Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...
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Late March 1673
The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England
and an oath against the Catholic
doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
226-7
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
326
1676: A tally taken by Church of England clergymen...
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1676
A tally taken by Church of England
clergymen and known as the Compton Census set out to number adult Catholics
and Dissenters
in England and Wales.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
78-9, 81, 84, 87
11 April 1687: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, A...
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11 April 1687
John Dryden
's The Hind and the Panther, A Poem, In Three Parts, was licensed for print: a vindication of the Catholic Church
against the Church of England
which, unusually, takes the form of...
February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...
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February 1689 to October 1791
The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II
(who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange
(who had assumed...
8 March 1698: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...
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8 March 1698
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
or SPCK, set up to provide charity schools (and missionary outreach in British colonies), held its first meeting.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. The Charity School Movement: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Puritanism in Action. F. Cass, 1964.
38
Adamson, John William. Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1905.
205
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