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Author summary | Susanna Hopton | SH
's intense involvement in the religious controversies of the later seventeenth century led her to study, write, and publish texts both theological and devotional, often adapting Roman Catholic
sources to make them usable by... |
Author summary | Alice Meynell | AM
was a late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century poet, as well as the author of criticism, journalism, essays, art reviews, introductions, and translations. Her output amounted to ten essay collections and six poetry volumes during... |
Author summary | George Douglas | Lady Gertrude Georgina Douglas (later Stock) wrote during the later nineteenth century under the name of George Douglas
. She used the novel both as a means of earning money and as a vehicle for... |
politics | Anne Locke | Entertaining Knox was a politically dangerous thing for Locke and her husband to do under Queen Mary
. A few years later, when Anne Locke left England, her motives no doubt included a religio-political element—she... |
politics | Dorothy Richardson | With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum
's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere... |
politics | May Laffan | As well as strongly opposing the convent or the clerical education system, ML
took a strong interest in the Irish university problem. When she was writing her novels Catholics were discouraged from attending the long-established... |
politics | Jane Barker | Though all the English at St-Germain were Jacobites this did not mean they were all in agreement. There were deep and sometimes acrimonious divisions among them over tactics, principles, and especially allegiances. JB
was a... |
politics | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Lady Tyrwhit and her husband continued to prosper through the reign of Queen Mary
. Susan M. Felch points out that long before she was a persecutor of Protestants, Mary had participated in the humanist... |
politics | Lady Lucy Herbert | |
politics | Catherine Marsh | She wrote, in 1886 and 1891-2, several letters protesting against the first and second Home Rule Bills which sought to reduce British political and religious control over Ireland. Her anti-Home-Rule stance was no doubt... |
politics | Harriet Hamilton King | It seems that her conversion to Catholicism
must have involved some change in the political views she had held so long and so passionately, since Garibaldi was in his lifetime an icon of anti-Catholicism, and... |
Occupation | Katharine Evans | In Malta, an island whose Roman Catholicism
the Quaker women regarded as idolatrous, they were warned by the British Consul that they ran a risk, if they engaged in missionary activity, of arrest by... |
Occupation | Thomas Moore | He published several politically-charged works that highlighted his Irish patriotism, particularly his outrage at Ireland's disadvantages under English rule. These titles included satirical poetry (Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters, 1828)... |
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 | Pamela Frankau | PF
's rate of production had dropped since before the war. Between now and 1960 she published (only) eight books. Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann. 83 |
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