Saint Paul

It was hard to persuade him to leave his current congregation, and the question of his maintenance was also in play. Stucley, meanwhile, regularly insisted that SP should attend every meeting about Church affaires and...

As to religion, LMC had a natural leaning towards piety, but disliked most of the Christian sects of which she had experience. She found the Unitarians too cold, the Swedenborgians (to whom early in her...

Being middle-aged and having published advice to single women, she was afraid she might be making a mistake in getting married. The marriage, however, though brief, was extremely happy. At the wedding ceremony, John...

SC linked her physical and mental deterioration to problems with her reproductive organs. She expressed disgust at her body, writing in one of her letters a quotation from Saint Paul , O who will deliver...

MDF 's title-page quotes an exhortation to meekness from St Paul 's Epistle to Timothy: if Huntington had borne this advice in mind, she says, she would not have needed to write. She takes...

Reprinting a letter sent to Huntington in April 1787 about the possibility of their meeting, MDF professes herself willing to meet him to straighten matters out between them; she says she has nothing against his...

She recommends Barrie as a model for aspiring writers and, with an echo of St Paul , praises his avoidance of vulgar sensationalism: To his honour be it spoken, his stock-in-trade has been of the...

As its fuller title explains, Good News to the Good Women is also addressed to the Bad Women too that will grow better, the like to the men, but here the women are put in...

MDF 's riposte, again in the form of a prose letter and longer than her other works, addresses Huntington, the father, on the grounds that the pamphlet published in the name of the daughter, Morton...

She addressed it To Old Royalists, and their Posterity. To these Old Friends and Fellow-Sufferers in the Late Times, she describes the Spirit which is available equally to all Mankind, as well Women as...

MF approaches her topic in a scholarly rather than an impassioned manner. She is conservative in that she seeks authority for what she proposes, though her attitude to her authorities is far from submissive. Her...

Although it says Not oft use I to wryght / In prose nor yet in ryme, it is passionately confident in tone. The stanza about the bloody force which has usurped the throne of...

Having been weighing the matter before the Lord, she wrote: I believe I am called to do all I can for God. This included helping at prayer meetings, at the invitation of a brother or...

Naomi, who has the same energy, strength of faith, and nobility of character as her father, struggles for much of the novel against the limitations on female employment. Early on she asks herself What use...

Again the title-page quotes Saint Paul . The heroine, one of three daughters of a clergyman, personifies the virtue of the title even at the end, in happy love. The eldest sister, meanwhile, behaves like...