Jesus

Haydn wrote this music in 1785 as a meditation on Christ 's Seven Last Words from the Cross, from the opening Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do, to the final Father...

In it Jesus comforts a mill-girl who is injured and dying after the terrible industrial accident.

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...

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

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...

Drawing on personal experience as a temperance worker, ESP developed the story of a temperance-oriented minister who tries to live like Christ in a fishing village where intemperance is rife. Embodying both religious and humanitarian...

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...

ESP 's The Story of Jesus Christ: An Interpretation, 16 December 1897, is a kind of fictional biography which offers, says critic Roxanne Harde , a loving, often sentimental...

Jacob Schwartz published at the Ulysses Press two handsome limited editions by HHR , to catch the 1931 Christmas market. Her stories Mary Christina and The Life of Peterle Lüthy appeared in an edition of...

This novel reflects both MR 's efforts to remove her own self from her writing, and the freedom and power she felt when she allowed herself, after all, to be present there again. In...

She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically. Keeping to her unalterable schedule of several hours reading a day, she did painstaking research...

A number of poems here are grouped in series, the centrepiece being The Furies (which, she said, was the reason that she decided not to wait but to publish the collection in her lifetime).

The spiritual director of the nun Margaret Clement the younger seems not to have had much imaginative grasp on this family history, since ES represents him as astonished at the great courage and magnanimity which...

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...

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...