qtd. in
Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
2: 334
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Cultural formation | Grace Aguilar | GA
's writings treat in detail the Jewish faith to which she strongly adhered, and she often focuses on the persecution and prejudice which Jews suffered throughout the nineteenth century, as well as historically. As... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Grace Aguilar | According to the matriarchal traditions of her culture, Sarah (Dias Fernandes) Aguilar The name is sometimes spelled Diaz. |
Literary Setting | Grace Aguilar | The Fugitive, from the 1845 Book of Beauty, outlines the plight of Portuguese Jews in the mid-eighteenth century under the Inquisition
, through the medium of a love story. It writes somewhat archly... |
Literary Setting | Grace Aguilar | One of these tales, entitled The Escape, features Almah, a Jewish wife in Portugal who cross-dresses in order to infiltrate the Inquisition
and engineer the escape of her husband, who has been betrayed and... |
Literary Setting | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian has been read as an answer to The Monk by Lewis
, a vindication of terror (assaults on the nerves, the strain of threatened but imperfectly perceived danger) against horror (sexual obsession and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Katharine Evans | KE
wrote from her Inquisition
prison in Malta a personal, religious letter to her husband and children in England. She calls it the eleventh month of 1661, which most probably means January 1662, counting from... |
Occupation | Katharine Evans | In Malta, an island whose Roman Catholicism
the Quaker women regarded as idolatrous, they were warned by the British Consul that they ran a risk, if they engaged in missionary activity, of arrest by... |
politics | Mary Ward | A warrant from the Inquisition
for MW
's arrest as a heretic, schismatic, and rebel to the Holy Church qtd. in Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols. 2: 334 |
Textual Features | Roxburghe Lothian | Dante and Beatrice, from 1282 to 1290 reflects RL
's deep knowledge of her subject matter, and she fed her research into many digressions on architecture, culture, and society. Her history of the Baptistery of... |
Textual Features | Grace Aguilar | The martyr named in the title is a Spanish Jew named Marie, who refuses to convert despite her love for an English Catholic man, and the further inducements represented by the torture of the Inquisition |
Textual Features | Mrs F. C. Patrick | In the later stages of the novel, Anthony is in love with Lady Maria, an unrecorded daughter of Mary, Queen of Scots (a plot twist which must ultimately be owed to Sophia Lee
and The... |
Textual Features | Catherine Gore | Greville is a shy young English nobleman, who in the first volume enters high Parisian society and is attracted by French ladies. He then discovers what he takes to be a shameful and terrifying... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Gore | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Inchbald | A Case of Conscience is set in Spain. An only son returns from army service to find his father behaving coldly to him because of a supposed discovery that the young man is not... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Roxburghe Lothian | The novel relates the love between Dante Alighieri
, scholar and poet, and the aristocrat Beatrice Portinari
, and the way her early death inspired his work, particularly the Divina Commedia. The political and... |
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