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These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.
These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.
This is the first biography of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, a member of England's Long Parliament, Puritan, historian and antiquarian who lived from 1602–1650. D'Ewes took the Puritan side against the supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil War, and his extensive journal of the Long Parliament, together with his autobiography and correspondence, offer a uniquely comprehensive view of the life of a seventeenth-century English gentleman, his opinions, thoughts and prejudices during this tumultuous time. D'Ewes left the most extensive archive of personal papers of any individual in early modern Europe. His life and thought before the Long Parliament are carefully analyzed, so that the mind o...
These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.
These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.
Anne Steele (1717–1778) originally wrote her hymns to be sung in the Baptist congregation pastored by her father. The foremost female contemporary of hymn-writing giants Charles Wesley, John Newton, and William Cowper, her hymns are infused with spiritual sensitivity, theological depth, and raw emotion. She eventually published her hymns under the pseudonym, Theodosia, which means “God’s Gift.” She believed God had given her a gift to share. Steele’s work was warmly received in her own day. Pastor and publishing pioneer of the modern English hymnal, John Rippon, included more than fifty of her hymns in the various topical sections of his wildly successful Selection of Hymns. Rippon...
These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.
These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.