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DW revised some of her poems for their appearance here from earlier versions, and again she reshuffled poems from one grouping to another, deliberately ignoring chronology and making their textual history hard to unravel. Lenin...

This book traces Helena from her girlhood in England as the daughter of a Romanized British landowning family, through her marriage to an ambitious young Roman officer, to her successful search, as a widow, for...

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.

The volume has two epigraphs: from Nigerian novelist Elechi Amadi and from Rainer Maria Rilke .Roselily presents a young, black, Missippi woman who, with strong misgivings, escapes her impossible circumstances by marrying a...

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...

In a letter she wrote in December 1892, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, she assesses the religious and other opinions she held during a period of her life that was about to close...

At the time of the book's appearance, the prevailing attitude to mysticism was that it was fundamentally unchristian and ultimately descended from the Neoplatonists. Mysticism was judged to be a vestige of paganism, the...

Following Mysticism, EU made a brief foray into publishing devotional works. The Path of Eternal Wisdom: A Mystical Commentary on the Way of the Cross, 1911, concerns Jesus 's passion and death. This...

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...

One of KT 's better known religious works is Miracle Plays: Our Lord 's Coming and Childhood, which appeared in both London and Chicago in 1895. The plays cover The Annunciation, The Visitation...

KT began publishing for children in 1906, with a book of manners entitled A Little Book of Courtesies; Charles Robinson illustrated it. She also wrote religious works and short stories for children, including The...

In these two theological polemcs CT defends the right of the individual to interpret scripture for himself (or by implication herself), and the Christian orthodoxy of Locke , whom Holdsworth had accused of being a...

When FT embarked on her country-wide tour, she saw herself as undertaking a role with intense spiritual significance. She viewed herself as the female messiah or as the Saving Woman who brought life and salvation...

Judah's Lion expressed CET 's own particular views about Judaism: she believed that Jews could simultaneously accept Jesus Christ (and therefore reach salvation) and retain their specific cultural practices. Her respect for the Jewish people...

Among ET 's shorter poems, her forms include hymns, odes, fables (the magpie and the stork, the rose and the thorn), and blank verse. A poem on Richborough Castle near Sandwich has masses of historical...