Jeremy Taylor

The daughter of a presumably white, professional, Irish family, Annie French was related on her mother's side to the seventeenth-century Bishop Jeremy Taylor and the eighteenth-century author Edmond Malone .

The family had various links with Katherine Philips , and the famous preacher Jeremy Taylor was chaplain at Golden Grove.

Jeremy Taylor (apparently taking a lead from Francis Finch , but a much better-known writer as well as a leading churchman) addressed his Discourse of the Nature, Offices and Measures of Friendship to KP in...

Sarah met John Wesley when he visited Mary's brother Robert (a friend from university) in April 1725. She became and remained a friend of John and his brother Charles , though she did not share...

Euphemia endures by means of good counsel from the sermons of seventeenth-century Jeremy Taylor , and of a friend whom she calls her Socratina or female Socrates . While pregnant with her son Edward she...

She also shares the other letter-writing skill of commentator on outside events, turning the same critical mind on party politics and on religious controversy. She is a thoughtful analyst of sermons, and admired the writings...

The title-page quotes Jeremy Taylor on life as a game of cards, involving both skill and luck. The novel's protagonist, Bertha d'Egmont, impulsively elopes with a husband she knows little about, and from this first...

ES published many texts intended for Sunday School or educational use, beginning with Readings for Every Day in Lent, 1851, a compilation of the writings of the seventeenth-century bishop Jeremy Taylor . Other titles...

Writing about a wide range of authors from Caedmon to Coventry Patmore , she devotes a significant portion of the book to the seventeenth century, which held a great interest for her. The chapter Anglicans

This letter expounds her pedagogical principles and practice. Elsewhere she writes on matters of church administration and business, on tricky theological issues like the real presence in the sacrament, on religious virtues like zeal or...