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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Material Conditions of Writing | Harriett Mozley | In writing this novel she had to struggle with worsening ill-health, and with her distress and anxiety over her brother John Henry as his pilgrimage of belief took him steadily closer towards joining the Roman Catholic Church |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Lucas Malet | The Far Horizon, which LM
published four years after her conversion to Roman Catholicism
, was a new departure for her, a religious novel which was perceived as proselytising. Malet, Lucas. “Introduction”. The History of Sir Richard Calmady, edited by Talia Schaffer, University of Birmingham Press, p. ix - xxxii. xii TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 254 (23 November 1906): 394 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Charlotte Mary Brame | |
| Literary Setting | E. Nesbit | The short-story volume Something Wrong includes Man-Size in Marble, a ghost story set around the actual Brenzett Church in Romney Marsh. The Brenzett village website (in 2011) says that the church is worth... |
| Literary Setting | Margaret Holford | The Conspirator is historical, dealing with Sir Everard Digby
's participation in the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, largely from the point of view of his wife. Mary, Lady Digby
, intensely sensitive and... |
| Literary Setting | May Laffan | The tale begins in August 1873, and concerns two middle-class, Catholic
families living in Dublin: the Carews and the O'Neils. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT. 139 |
| Literary Setting | Frances Brooke | This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB
drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic... |
| Literary Setting | Monica Furlong | This short novel, a blend of fairytale, adventure story, didacticism, the occult, and a study of an orphan finding herself, is set in the seventh century in the kingdom of Dalriada (now the Isle of... |
| Literary Setting | Anna Kingsford | The action of Beatrice takes place in Rome between 303 and 305 A.D.. The novel is a historical fictionalisation of the Christian persecutions of the Diocletian
era, using the martyrdom story of the eponymous heroine... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Pearson | First the son, Lord Bellton, gives the medallion to his mistress before leaving on the Grand Tour, but it is thrown away and makes another picaresque progress through the hands of a French military commander... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Elstob | George Hickes
had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England
against... |
| Literary responses | George Douglas | |
| Literary responses | Monica Furlong | Ruth McCurry
in the Times Literary Supplement found this biography at once accurate and sympathetic. Saint Thérèse, said McCurry, could have been shown as a victim either of nineteenth-century provincial French society, or of an... |
| Literary responses | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | Reviewer Camille-Yvette Welsch
read this poem as an allegory of the uneasy bonds joining pagan with Christian, Catholic
with Protestant
. Welsch, Camille-Yvette. “New Irish poets”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. xx , No. 9, pp. 17-18. 18 |
| Literary responses | Willa Cather | Michael Williams
in The Commonweal called this book a wonderful demonstration of the artist's power, in that Cather had steeped her story in Roman Catholic
spirituality as no Catholic American writer could have done. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf. 13 |
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