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Quoting several of the street ballads at length, AG argues that they are a means of recovering the suppressed history of Ireland, which having been forbidden in the national schools, has lifted up its...

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...

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...

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

LLH approaches her subject with reverence and urgency. The Holy Mass is the most sublime action that the Church militant can offer to God. It holds out to believers the daily opportunity to enrich ourselves...

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, as a schoolteacher...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The title of A Few Figs from Thistles is a mischievous reversal of Christ 's rhetorical question: Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?