Owen Felltham

(1602 - 1668)

Suffolk-born author Owen Felltham is best known for a 1623 collection of one hundred short essays known as resolves. The genre—typically a statement of inspiration intended to reform Christian morals—was popular during the seventeenth century but declined in influence afterward. “A scholar’s life was not my profession,” Felltham wrote in later years, “for I have lived in such a course as my books have been my delight, but not my trade, though perhaps I could wish they had.”