McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Maitland | SM
's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church
. Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Sinclair | CS
sets up a dichotomy between Protestantism
, which is based on the truth of Scripture, and Catholicism
, which rests on legends. Without the Bible, she writes, men would be mere weeds in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | The second part is devoted to France. MDF
laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism
: slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition
. She identifies... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | Written specifically for use in Sunday Schools, it relates the sufferings of Protestant Martyrs such as Anne Askew
, Katherine Hut
, and Elizabeth Thackvel
. The sufferings of Anne Askew (here seen as martyr... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Valentine Ackland | The letters are an intimate portrayal of the thirty-nine-year love affair between Warner and Ackland, from their first meeting until Ackland's death. Written when the two women were together and apart, the correspondence is a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Underhill | Like Mysticism, this book displays great erudition. EU
draws on research into eleven (mainly Christian) religious denominations to synthesize the nature, principles, and chief expressions of the human response to and relationship with the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elinor James | Here she does not spare her vituperation against the new king's Catholic
advisors, and is equally outspoken in her own resolve to sacrifice one hundred lives in the king's service if she had them. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 137-8, 211 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Marsh | The first half of the book details the deaths of several patients in the cholera wards whom CM
had visited and talked with about God. The second half asks the reader: Are you safe there... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Antonia Fraser | This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes
, Thomas Winter
, and Robert (Robin) Catesby
; rulers such as King James |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Gerard Manley Hopkins | He intended his poem as a pindaric ode on a modern Catholic
martyrdom. It describes the raging force of the sea, the courage of the dominant nun who heartens her companions to die well, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Jay | Madge Dunraven also differs widely in its presentation of Catholicism
both from HJ
's first and second novels. Along with her positive portrait of Irish philanthropy, she presents Catholic characters as living their religion, while... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she writes also about the English Civil War as a way of writing about the First World War. She writes in a similarly veiled manner about her own religious struggles at a time when... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, pp. 3-14. 7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Graham Greene | Centred on a corrupt, alcoholic Catholic priest, who is never named, it is one of six of Greene's novels that take Catholicism
as a central theme. GG
thought it the most satisfactory of his novels.... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Jay | The novel consistently attacks Roman Catholics
as prejudiced, supersititious, and dangerously under the thrall of their priests. Through O'Brien, HJ
blames the poor for their own poverty, painting them as stupidly resistant to change that... |
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