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Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
Violence | Lady Lucy Herbert | The Lincoln's Inn Fields house of Lord Powis
(recently released after years in prison on suspicion of treasonable Catholic
plotting, father of future writers Lucy
and Winifred
) was burned to the ground by chance... |
Travel | Graham Greene | Commissioned by a London publishing house to write about the Mexican Catholic church
, GG
travelled to Mexico. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 15 Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf. 78 |
Travel | Elizabeth Jennings | The award required that its winner spend three months in a foreign country, observing the ways of people in another culture. EJ
felt most grateful for the enjoyable experience, terming her Italian travels the happiest... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hilary Mantel | Its plot employs ghosts and revenants to satirize the bizarre machinations of the Roman Catholic Church
in the throes of change. Set in the mythical town of Fetherhoughton in the north of England in the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The book does not measure up to the force and clarity of the opening. The suggestively-named Deletia Granville is a mysterious, neglected young girl at the outset, pensive and literary, loving sublime nature and her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Despard | In this historically-based essay CD
sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. Shaw, Frederick John, editor. The Case for Women’s Suffrage. Unwin. 190 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Calderwood | In Holland she reports in detail on horses and carriages, agriculture, the styles of dress and houses, customs like those for Sundays (solemn church attendance, followed by feasting, drinking and dancing). Calderwood, Margaret. Letters and Journals. David Douglas. 86 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | The issues of education and the Fenians mesh together here, as hardships caused by bad education often draw male characters to the movement. The local Fenian head has been born and educated in Ireland... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Robinson | In the body of the novel ER
pays little attention to her supposed source. She creates no fictitious narrator, and the style in which she relates the well-known story of Joan, or Jeanne (her peasant... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Atkins | With a vulgar father and a mother ignorant of high society, Mary grows up unguided. A coquette and an heiress after her father's death, she secretly cares for the curate John Leigh, but flirts culpably... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Bird | On one hand she lauds American religious feeling, especially as expressed in the New England States, but she calls slave-owning southerners hypocrites, and worries about the effect of Catholicism
in the mid-Western states of Illinois... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jeanette Winterson | Winterson conjures up an England ruled by a king, James I
, obsessed with stamping out the twin evils of witchcraft and Catholicism
. She identifies the original group on the hill with poor women... |
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