Hyde — George Herbert and His Times

Hyde, A. G. George Herbert and His Times. London: Methuen; New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1906.

“The Poet and His Age”; “Birthplace, Family and Childhood”; “School and University”; “Early Life and Writings at Cambridge”; “Orator and Theologian”; “Herbert as a Courtier”; “The Lady Magdalen Herbert”; “Friends and Contemporaries”; “The Reordering of the Church”; “Transitional”; “Nicholas Ferrar and Little Gidding”; “Bemerton: The Parson and His Cure”; “Last Days”; “The Temple. The Church-Porch”; “The Temple. The Shorter Poems”; “The Country Parson and Other Writings”; “Conclusion.” Index.

Reviews: “George Herbert,” Times Literary Supplement, 5 October 1906, pp. 333–34; “Holy Mr. Herbert,” Saturday Review 102 (1906): 583–84; Francis Thompson, Athenaeum, 16 March 1907, pp. 313–14.

Muir and White — Materials for the Life of Nicholas Ferrar

Muir, Lynette R., and John A. White, eds. Materials for the Life of Nicholas Ferrar: A Reconstruction of John Ferrar’s Account of His Brother’s Life Based on All the Surviving Copies. Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Literary and Historical Section 14, part 4. Leeds: Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society Ltd, 1996.

Shorthouse — John Inglesant

Shorthouse, J. H. John Inglesant: A Romance. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1880.

A privately printed novel in which Little Gidding figures prominently; a trade edition was published in 1881 by Macmillan.

Williams — Conversations at Little Gidding

Williams. A. M., ed. Conversations at Little Gidding. ‘On the Retirement of Charles I.’ ‘On the Austere Life’: Dialogues by Members of the Ferrar Family. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.

A Columbia University dissertation.

Review: Frederick B. Atz, Renaissance Quarterly 25 (1972): 115–16.

Macdonogh — Brief Memoirs of Nicholas Ferrar

[Macdonogh, Terence M.]. Brief Memoirs of Nicholas Ferrar, M.A. and Felllow of Clare-Hall, Cambridge, Founder of a Protestant Religious Establishment at Little Gidding, Huntingdonshire: Collected from a Narrative by the Right Reverend Dr. Turner, Now Edited with Additions and Biographical Notices of Some of Mr. Ferrar’s Contemporaries by a Clergyman of the Established Church. Bristol: J. Chilcott, 1829.

Marshall — Haunt of Ancient Peace

Marshall, Emma. A Haunt of Ancient Peace: Memories of Mr. Nicholas Ferrar’s House at Little Gidding, and of His Friends Dr. Donne and Mr. George Herbert. A Story. New York: Macmillan, 1896; London: Seeley and Co. Ltd., 1897.

With illustrations by T. H. Crawford.

Maycock — Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding

Maycock, A. L. Nicholas Ferrar of Little Gidding. London: SPCK, 1938.

Reprinted: Eerdmans, 1980.

Reviews: P. Courant, Études anglaises 3 (1939): 45–46; F. Higham, History 24 (1939) 67–68; Bernard Blackstone, New Criterion 18 (1938): 154–57; A. S. Wood, Evangelical Quarterly 53 (October–December 1981): 250–51; G. E. Veith, Christianity and Literature 30, no. 4 (Summer, 1981): 83–85.

Armenian Nunnery

The Armenian Nunnery; or, a Brief Description and Relation of the Late Erected Monasticall Place, Called the Arminian Nunnery at Little Gidding in Huntington-Shire, Humbly Recommended to the Wise Consideration of This Present Parliament: The Foundation Is by a Company of Farrars at Giddding. [London]: Thomas Underhill, 1641.