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GF is still struggling here with the relative merits of fiction and biography. Her preface puts forward the idea that when a biography is able to present its readers with a reflection of their own...

It records the thinking that led her to return from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of England . CT uses the first person, in a clear, confident style, hammering her opponents with rhetorical questions.

Her protagonist, Josephine, is as a child deeply impressed by two sights on the same day: a fat lady, gaudily dressed, daringly walking a tightrope, and a burning of heretics by the Inquisition. Josephine identifies...

Plumptre explains her choice of subject matter by admitting that she feels a peculiar sympathy with those humbler seekers after truth—too great to be content with the ephemeral pleasures of the hour, not great enough...

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

Only a few months later there came from MBL another war novel, Lilla: A Part of her Life, about a woman whose husband is presumed lost in action but returns to find her remarried...

AF turned her attention to another act of parliament which transformed the socio-political scene in Britain, in The King and the Catholics . The Fight for Rights 1829.

After EW 's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti , which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of...

The stages of CH 's struggle to embrace Catholicism must have been charted in the letters she exchanged with the Prioress of St Monica's and other religious advisers, and with her father. The bulk of...

Many of ML 's letters to the publishing firm of Macmillan (to George Augustin Macmillan especially) survive. In 1884 she wrote a short manifesto on education for Catholic girls in the form of a letter...

During her first marriage and her theological debates with her mother-in-law , EB wrote a dialogue between a Protestant and a Catholic about their respective faiths.

Taylor worked as a nurse alongside Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War before converting to Catholicism and establishing her Congregation . She published a novel about historical persecution of English Catholics as well as an...

AP published A Chaplet of Verses, a slim volume in aid of the Providence Row Night Refuge for Homeless Women and Children in Moorfields, London, England's first Catholic refuge of this type.

SWM also pioneered the sonnet in America and wrote hymns for several different denominations. Her tolerance for different beliefs and movements appears in Reanimation, a Hymn for the Humane Society (an organization dedicated to saving...

Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published her first proselytizing religious pamphlet, A Friendly Address to Converts from the Roman Catholic Church.