Crommelin, May. Orange Lily. Ullans Press.
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Textual Features | John Betjeman | Critic Ian Sansom
notes the preference this poetry evinces for familiarity and tradition. He singles out for mention the opening poem, Death in Leamington (about the bleakness of a woman's death in lonely, genteel poverty),... |
Textual Features | Georgiana Fullerton | 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... |
Textual Features | Catharine Trotter | 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. |
Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner | |
Textual Features | Lucas Malet | The title is ironical, for LM
argues that women's incursions into the masculine sphere threaten them with subjection, while personal and family relations set their talents free. She appeals here to the authority of the... |
Textual Features | Michèle Roberts | 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... |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | 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. Crommelin, May. Orange Lily. Ullans Press. 1 |
Textual Features | C. E. Plumptre | 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... |
Textual Features | Julia O'Faolain | The Italian protagonist, Carla Verdi, lives in a suburb of Los Angeles with her thirteen-year-old son, while her husband is temporarily absent in Italy. The novel builds up the daily texture of her life, her... |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | MF
's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican
, Roman Catholic |
Textual Features | Jessie White Mario | Here she gives her appraisal of Catholic
and Protestant views of women's rights, as well as a general discussion of the disappointingly slight interest in Italy in sexual equality. Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press. 164 |
Textual Features | Jane Porter | Her first piece of this kind, for Friendship's Offering, 1826, was titled A Tale of Ispahan and designed to supplement an engraving of that town from a sketch by her brother Sir Robert Ker Porter |
Textual Features | Zoë Fairbairns | The nurse of the title is Marie Louise Habets
, who had been a nun for seventeen years, but had left her religious Order before she met the US Protestant Kathryn Hulme
when both were... |
Textual Features | Toni Morrison | TM
handles her narrative with her usual skill, informing her scenes and her people with life through telling detail. The story opens in the voice of Florens, who can remember being with her mother as... |
Textual Features | Marjorie Bowen | Early in the story two young men, Dirk and Thierry, decide to study the dark arts. After they put a curse on a fellow-student they are accused of witchcraft and their apparatus discovered, but they... |
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