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.

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.

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.

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.

Protestant Nonconformity, the umbrella term for Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists and Unitarians, belongs specifically to the religious history of England and Wales. Initially the result of both unwillingness to submit to the State's interference in Christian life and a dissatisfaction with the progress of reform in the English Church, Nonconformity has been primarily motivated by theological concern, ecclesial polity, devotion and the nurture of godliness among the members of the church. Alongside such churchly interests, Nonconformity has also made a profound contribution to debates about the role of the State, to family life and education, culture in general, trade and industry, the development of philanthropy and charity, and the development of pacifism. In this volume, for the first time, Nonconformity and the breadth of its activity come under the expert scrutiny of a host of recognised scholars. The result is a detailed and fascinating account of a movement in church history that, while currently in decline, has made an indelible mark on social, political, economic and religious life of the two nations.

This book discusses the intrusion, often inadvertent, of personal voice into the poetry of landscape in Britain, 1700– 1807. It argues that strong conventions, such as those that inhere in topographical verse of the period, invite original poets to overstep those bounds while also shielding them from the repercussions of self-expression. Working under cover of convention in this manner and because for many of these poets place is tied in significant ways to personal history, poets of place may launch unexpected explorations into memory, personhood, and the workings of consciousness. This book thus supplements past, largely political, readings of landscape poetry, turning to questions of self-articulation and self-expression in order to argue that the autobiographical impulse is a distinctive and innovative feature of much great eighteenth-century poetry of place. Among the poets under examination are Pope, Thomson, Duck, Gray, Goldsmith, Crabbe, Cowper, Smith, and Wordsworth.