Marsin, M. A Full and Clear Account the Scripture gives of the Deity. John Gouge.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | M. Marsin | She points out that Saint Paul
had been taught by his mother and grandmother; she decries Mans Scholastick Learning, which, she says, has too frequently been set up to contradict the Scriptures; Marsin, M. A Full and Clear Account the Scripture gives of the Deity. John Gouge. 9 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Gerard Manley Hopkins | He intended his poem as a pindaric ode on a modern Catholic
martyrdom. It describes the raging force of the sea, the courage of the dominant nun who heartens her companions to die well, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | The Catholic
clergy (in the person of Father Jim Corkran) comes under particular fire as selfish and insensible of Irish needs. The priest of Peatstown guides by fear and is utterly devoid of dignity, either... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Viola Meynell | Through religious allusion and diction, VM
addresses the theme of sacred and profane love and explores the ethical dilemmas of a love triangle in a small village. Evan Davidstow, an altruistic lawyer, is caught between... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Janet Schaw | JS
portrays Portugal too as an unhappy land, full of oppressive regulations and of officers exacting fines and fees from travellers. Upper-class women are virtual prisoners in their homes; marriage without consent is savagely punished... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucas Malet | She expresses here an interest in comparative religion which may distantly herald her eventual conversion. She refers to the battering-ram qualities of Protestantism and the charmed and glorified, the rich and magical atmosphere of Catholic |
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 | May Laffan | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Graham Greene | Centred on a corrupt, alcoholic Catholic priest, who is never named, it is one of six of Greene's novels that take Catholicism
as a central theme. GG
thought it the most satisfactory of his novels.... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, pp. 3-14. 7 |
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 | Elizabeth Charles | It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett. 1 |
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... |
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