Mary, the mother of Jesus

MW published her landmark study of the figure of the Virgin Mary as a model for women: Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary.

Life in the convent was quite regimented: we were all marched in line and we all sang songs together and we learned everything by heart. Devotion to Mary flourished among the children. MW remained...

Here, she learned the practices of examining her conscience and meditating on holy pictures, which have been significant in her life ever since. At both her convent schools devotion to the Virgin Mary was...

EU published with HeinemannThe Miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary, an anthology of translated fairytales of mediæval Catholicism .

KT opens this volume (like her Ballads and Lyrics) with a prefatory poem that is modest, if not apologetic: A small monotonous song I sing, / My notes are faint and few. The...

Despite the title, these poems do not present new themes, images, or structures. The most effective among them return to a theme always close to her heart: maternity. She celebrates female strength in two poems,...

KT allowed her fervent Catholicism to shine through in her depictions of conventual life and in her discussions of the Virgin Mary : Mary, Mother of God, is the ideal set before all Catholic women...

FAS brackets her extremely touching story between two overt comparisons of Indian with British culture, not to the latter's advantage. No matter how barbarous the marriage customs of India, FAS writes that Uma confronts...

She dedicated to British Ladies interested in the bible these scholarly essays or notes. In a spirit of cultural enquiry she explains the use of camels as transport. In Jephthah's Daughter she argues confidently for...

In what some consider her most ambitious religious work, she continues here her meditations on the female characters of the Bible. The text envisions the moment at which Eve , the Virgin Mary ...

The second title uses the Latin version of the words which the Virgin Mary spoke to the angel of the Annunciation, in English Behold the handmaid of the Lord!CR sat also as model for...

The title comes from a Mayday hymn to Mary : the allusion to prayer is both nostalgic and ironical.

A number of poems in this volume express sympathy with the losses and failures of humanity, or address the passage of time. Several concern religious observance: among these are two poems both bearing the title...

ABJ examined the life of the Virgin Mary in Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts, the third volume of her series Sacred and Legendary Art.

Chapter one deals with the advantages and benefits of prayer: the means which God gives us to attain to our last end; and to that Sanctity, and Perfection he has design'd us. After several...