Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon

Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans (following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...

From the first, however, MD 's preaching was polarizing, attracting not only praise but also criticism more hostile than Cookworthy's. She was blamed for her social manner, for being visibly of a higher rank than...

The book is divided by topic (confession, detachment from the world, guidance in perplexity, union with Christ, etc.). Included are only a few selections from women authors, namely Madame Guyon , Christina Rossetti , Caroline Matilda of Denmark

A dedication to the memory of her mother quotes Not lost, but gone before (the title of a story by Margaret Gatty ). The book takes the bereaved through various stages of mourning and...

LMC 's first four subjects were all known for their writings and for their resistance to tyrannical authority, either political or religious, but she is more interested here in what she alleges to have been...

She followed this in 1841 with another devotional text including biography: Facts and Feelings, illustrative of interior religion; accompanied by memorials of Madame Guyon , Fénelon , and other spiritual persons.

In 1832 appeared The Biographies of Madame de Staël and Madame Roland and The Biographies of Lady Russell and Madame Guyon. The following year came Good Wives—which in later editions sometimes appeared as...