qtd. in
Harde, Roxanne. “’God, or something like that’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Christian Spiritualism”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
15
, No. 348-70, Dec. 2008. 360
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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 | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | In it Jesus
comforts a mill-girl who is injured and dying after the terrible industrial accident. |
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 | 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 | Shelagh Delaney | The first and longest story, also titled Sweetly Sings the Donkey, from the title of a children's song, takes place in a convalescent home run by nuns. Many of the characters are invalids, one... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | In another story for the same periodical, How June Found Massa Linkum, a slave child who has never heard of Christianity dies and is welcomed to heaven by both Jesus
and President Lincoln
(contradicting... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Several stories in this collection focus on women's spiritual experience. The broken mirror in Phelps's The Lady of Shalott is that of a bedridden teenager whose drunken mother disabled her by throwing her downstairs. Jesus |
Textual Features | Ménie Muriel Dowie | The first story in the volume, Wladislaw's Advent, explores decadent themes familiar to its original publication venue. It depicts an impoverished Polish artist living in the west end of Paris, and his encounter... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | This book is narrated after her death by a woman named Mary who spent her life following the teachings of Christ
in ministering to the sick, the miserable, and the poor, qtd. in Harde, Roxanne. “’God, or something like that’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Christian Spiritualism”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 15 , No. 348-70, Dec. 2008. 360 |
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, 1921. 77 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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