John Longland, confessor to Henry VIII and bishop of Lincoln a diocese which spanned nine counties and has a correspondingly important place in English history occupied his see throughout the period of the Henrician Reformation. In her analysis of the diocese during his episcopate, based on exhaustive research in archives, Margaret Bowker reveals the impact of both royal policy and religious contention on the clergy and laity of a large part of England, and on the ecclesiastical structure of the diocese. The state of the Church and the reforms which are in progress within it during the decade...

This is a detailed study of the large and important diocese of Lincoln under three sixteenth-century bishops.

The Governess is the latest exciting literary romance novel in Margaret Bowker's Modern Classics Series. Raised by wealthy Mrs Mallory, twenty-two year old Mary Charlton goes to Princeton Court to be an assistant governess to Harry Toille, the young son of Lord Bryam. She soon takes on the additional role of chaperone and friend to his elder sister, Jocasta Cecil, a pretty, wilful girl of twenty with forty thousand pounds. Mary yhelps Jocasta through a number of scrapes and is attracted to Nicholas Hammick, heir to the hazeley Hall estate, and a veru suitable match for the young heiress, but...

Having endured a privileged, but rather cloistered life, twenty-three year old Paul Derry comes to Prior Street to stay with his spinster cousins, Viola and Letitia Derimont. He is surprised to find himself living in an ordinary area and released from the restrictions of London society, makes the acquaintance of Catrina Bradley, whose mother runs a shop in the street. Catrina fills the role of Miss Derimont's daughter and the young people become friends. Paul's aristocratic background allows him to elevate Catrina onto an equal level and a holiday in Brighton re-enforces this situation. It is...