Quoting Cindy Aalders (Cindy Aalders, “Writing Religious Communities: The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of English Women, 1740–90,” D.Phil. thesis, University of Oxford, 2014, 155.) Bruce Hindmarsh says
The Baptist hymn writer Anne Steele described her godly stepmother as “the christian’s pattern,” quoting, unmistakably, the common English title of the Imitation.
