Roman Catholic Church

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...

Critic Elaine V. Beilin discerns the influence on AD 's text of John Foxe 's Actes and Monuments, 1563. Her comment on the martyrdom of de Bourg is particularly explicit in its critique...

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...

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...

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...

This markedly anti-Catholic story (which goes out of its way to criticise the Jesuits ) begins in the twelfth century, when the abbey was founded. The narrator describes how a mother who had...

She often took her Irish heritage and the nationalist cause, as well as nature, motherhood, and her Catholicism , as inspirations for her poetry.The Legend of the Sorrowful Mother, a narrative poem...

Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing...

The viewpoint here is that of the narrator, Charles Ryder, as he looks back nostalgically from his current army milieu to the vanished privilege of an English country house and an Oxford college. Ryder is...

Commenting one last time on the state of Catholic schools, Laffan calls them highly destructive and immoral. The most dreadful thing of all is that the boys of the Priest's schools, of the Jesuits ...

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...

The first part of this volume revolves around MMG 's parents, particularly her father, who had recently died. The second part moves from the personal to encompass also the political, and revolves around dialogue: between...

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

The poems in this collection include Kismet, Lovers at the Lake Side, and Nature, for Nature's Sake. Several of the poems explore more dark and serious matters. The Maid-Martyr, for example...

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...