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...

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...

This book reflects MF 's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a...

LH draws on a wide range of sources to buttress her argument. These include the results of her reading—Milton , and the story of the Greek Atalanta (whose male inventors, she says, were not...

She resisted still more firmly the conventions around opening and closing letters, having a detestation of lyeing epithets of humble servants and stuff, and dear Sir and nonsense. Pliny and Cicero and Paul never begun...

The quotation about the wrath of God that stands at the head of this polemical work, from Saint Paul 's First Epistle to the Romans, gives it the appearance of a sermon on a...

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...