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Textual Features | Elizabeth Jennings | 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... |
Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | This story delivers a terrific kick. It centres on an unnamed woman who grew up in an oppressively Christian
household, kept miserable by the suffering of Christ
, whom she calls the Hanged Man. She... |
Textual Features | Anna Kingsford | This first novel offers insights into AK
's early beliefs about relationships between men and women. In her eyes, God has allotted [women] greater trials and keener sufferings than men. The idea of woman as... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | St Agatha's is a rich urban parish lacking a minister; the supply or temporary preacher assigned to them, an old man in a poor rural parish, goes out in a blizzard to visit a sick... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bathurst | The book opens with several stages of preliminary matter. In an opening epistle to five individual Friends, EB
says she has not acted out of ambition to be printed or to be popular, but in... |
Textual Features | Helen Waddell | This collection, wrote Waddell as translator, had no academic justification: it is arbitrary and unrepresentative of any author, or of any age. It reflected her despair during the months when the Second World War ceased... |
Textual Features | Alice Walker | The volume has two epigraphs: from Nigerian novelist Elechi Amadi
and from Rainer Maria Rilke
. White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton. 231 |
Textual Features | Elisabeth Wast | The point of EW
's book is to relate her religious experiences. She follows a chronological path, interrupting herself on occasion to add something that she forgot to mention in its proper Place. Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 201 |
Textual Features | Lady Charlotte Elliot | The title piece, in Spenserian stanzas with an ababccdcc rhyme scheme, depicts Mary Magdalene
being cajoled by Salome
to seize the day. Mary, the poem's major speaker, weep[s] and moan[s] For wantonness of feasts and... |
Textual Features | Annie Besant | From a theosophical perspective, AB
posits that nations exist not for themselves but as part of a movement towards that great Ideal of Nations as one Family, the Ideal of Universal Peace. Besant, Annie. Britain’s Place in the Great Plan. Theosophical Publishing House. 77 |
Textual Features | L. S. Bevington | Some poems here are again strongly anti-religious. LSB
excoriates religious institutions in In and Out of Church, mocking: Heaven to let—to paying lodger; Ah, you canting devil-dodger, Damn not us who spurn your... |
Textual Features | Ada Cambridge | The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these... |
Textual Features | Edna St Vincent Millay | As usual, Millay writes often here of death. In the title poem death, which claims the buck for the sake of his antlers, is set against Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the... |
Textual Features | Gillian Slovo | In 1924, the year that the Nationalists
come to power through alliance with the Labour Party
, Nathaniel is killed in a mine explosion and Evelyn comes to work as housekeeper for Harold and Julia... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Gaskell | This is the contentious core of the novel: that the seducer's sin of seduction is far graver than that of an innocent girl who lets herself be seduced. Ruth's faults are called venial errors... |
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