Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Swanwick | AS
begins with the feelings that assailed her when she first stood on a summit and contemplated the prospect of transcendent magnificence, the peaks and glaciers of the Alps. Such, she says, is the prospect... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism
. When her father demands whether... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Holland | A similar document, Chiefest Reasons Why I Became a Catholick, cites nine reasons, beginning with Catholicism's antiquity and unity, and ending with [s]uch rare examples of virtue in both sexes such as I could... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jemima Kindersley | JK
's style is plain, vigorous, and effective. She is consistently attentive to the details of women's lives and to the effects of history, politics, race, and religion in the various cultures she visits. Though... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jean Plaidy | JP
paints the young Joan of Arc as deeply spiritual and already aspiring to sainthood: Jeannette knew that many girls and boys were interested in each other . . . . She wanted none of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | ML
repeats here the cautious approbation of religiously mixed marriage that she voiced in Hogan, M.P. Such marriages, she suggests, can bring disparate cultures together, but only if they are contracted with respect and love... |
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 | Michèle Roberts | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The title of Not All Saints comes from an Irish proverb which is quoted on the title-page. The novel looks at Catholic
girls growing up. The orphaned Netta Heath cheerfully faces the necessity of earning... |
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 | Muriel Spark | The book's title comes from the book of Job (a text on which MS
had planned a monograph, and did write a related article). Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 165 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jemima Kindersley | At Salvador in Brazil she finds an oppressive government reflected in the domestic oppression of wives and daughters. She notes the high numbers of monks and nuns (3,000 in the town), the power of the... |
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 | Maria De Fleury | MDF
's first poem here, Innocence in Bonds, A Dialogue dated 14 August 1780, in which the speakers are Truth and the Muse, refers to her previous publication, to martyrs (implicitly Protestants) who died at... |
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