John Foxe

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Born:: Nov. 28, 1516
Died:: Nov. 28, 1587

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John Foxe (1516/17 – 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of Actes and Monuments (popularly known as Foxe's Book of Martyrs), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history, but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the 14th century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped to mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries

Books by John Foxe

James Boswell, Edmund Burke, James Thomson, Thomas Gray, William Collins, Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe, William Cowper, Anne Finch, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, M. H. Abrams, Robert Burton, Stephen Greenblatt, Geoffrey Chaucer, Piers Ploughman, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, Thomas More, John Skelton, Wyatt, Thomas Sir, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Walter Raleigh, Robert Southwell, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton, Thomas Campion, John Foxe, Sir Thomas Hoby, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hariot, John Donne, Ben Johnson, John Webster, Robert Herrick, George Herbert, Crashaw, Richard, Vaughan, Henry, Andrew Marvell, John Milton, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Thomas Carew, Edmund Waller, Suckling, John Sir, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Traherne, Abraham Cowley, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Izaak Walton, Thomas Browne, John Locke, Samuel Pepys, Thomas Sprat, Sir Isaac Newton, John Dryden, John Bunyan, William Congreve, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Butler, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Matthew Prior, John Gay, Montagu, Mary Wortley Lady, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson LL.D.: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1 (Paperback, 2000, W W Norton & Co Inc (Np))

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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1

by James Boswell, Edmund Burke, James Thomson, and 71 others