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Cultural formation | Annie Besant | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Frances Billington | From her concluding chapter, it is clear that MFB
was deeply invested in the teachings of Christianity
and attributed the sacrifices of serving women to its widespread principles. She writes: The noble army of serving... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Frances Brooke | Judith Romilly progresses from an old and cramping belief onward to the next unfolding phase—to one tasting the joys of a loftier and more austere atmosphere Brooke, Emma Frances. The Heir Without a Heritage. Richard Bentley and Son. 2: 255 |
politics | Mary Carpenter | MC
was impartially critical of various Hindu
, Muslim
, and Parsi
practices, but realised that her reforms had to proceed without attempting to convert Indian women from their religion. She was convinced that Christianity |
Textual Features | Leonora Carrington | The play comprises its characters' conversation about and preparation for their feast, during which Montezuma leads a jovial yet sharp attack on rituals and narratives of Christianity
. It concludes with the arrival of the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Leonora Carrington | Pushing against the femme-enfant who frequently emerges at the centre of surrealist art and writing, this book's heroine, Marion Leatherby, is a ninety-two-year-old crone. She is described by her grandson as a drooling sack of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Hume Clapperton | JHC
responds that Lathbury has missed several benefits that agnosticism offers to women and to society at large, including the exchange of truth for delusion, a standpoint from which clearness of thought and stability of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | While the twenty-two volumes cover a wide range of topics, eight of them directly address the history or practices of Christianity
and four focus on philosophical topics. These belonged, CFC
felt, to a subject complementary... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | CFC
's introduction regrets the effects of sectarian or partisan interpretations of primitive Christianity
. She firmly believed that in order to be the best possible Christian one should not only make a thorough study... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Isabella Duberly | The title-page quotes James Beattie
and Shakespeare
. For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow
addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars
. FID
's preface declares her intention of reporting the... |
Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | |
Cultural formation | Rosita Forbes | Her parents, she said (who were both members of the land-owning class, though in her father's case with strong egalitarian sympathies), had such a sensitive awareness of the next world that the permissible conveniences of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF
welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews
, Christians
, and Zoroastrians |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | This book reflects MF
's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | MF
begins her introduction with Saint Thérèse as exemplar of that style of traditional female sanctity which involves drastic self-abnegation, with Sackville-West
's attribution to her of niaiserie or sugariness, and with her own consequent... |
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