Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
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Anthologization | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes
included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH
to Henry Turberville
on choosing the Anglican
over... |
Birth | Lady Lucy Herbert | LLH
was born at the fortified stronghold of Powis Castle in Montgomeryshire, the youngest but one of a large and distinguished Roman Catholic
family. Henrietta Tayler
gives the year of her birth as 1668... |
Characters | Jennifer Johnston | |
Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | A Roman Catholic
widow feels after the death of her weak-natured husband that she has been unfaithful to him in her soul. She therefore declines the hand of a deserving man who has long loved... |
Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | Laurentia is another of Fullerton's historical novels, in this case written with the intent of providing a picture of the Church of Japan in the sixteenth century, and to illustrate in the shape of a... |
Characters | Roma White | This story is oddly poised between admiration for the free-spirited and bohemian, respect for social convention, sympathy with those who despise social convention, and a strong Christian moral spirituality in which the choice between good... |
Characters | Willa Cather | Her heroine, Myra Driscoll, is a Roman Catholic
who sets her religion aside and elopes to marry a Protestant, Oswald Henshawe, bringing down on herself family disapproval and disinheritance. Her brave insistence on marrying for... |
Characters | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College
who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with... |
Characters | John Oliver Hobbes | Time passes, and Sophy is happily married and then widowed, while Jim becomes a Nonconformist minister. The Firmalden siblings become intimate with an aristocratic Roman Catholic
couple, Lord Basil and Lady Tessa Marlesford. Struggle over... |
Characters | Antonia Fraser | The wedding in the novel is to unite British royalty (in the person of Princess Amy) to a Roman Catholic
spouse (in the person of Prince Ferdinand), for the first time since the Stuarts. Jemima... |
Characters | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston
) with... |
Characters | Marie Belloc Lowndes | With characters from a multiplicity of countries, the novel is set in London and an English country house. The Russian Paul Feyghine wastes the best years of his life for love of an unworthy Spanish... |
Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | In her youth AB
had a cousin who faithfully attended Mass. She later built friendships with several Anglican and Catholic clergy, visited monasteries in China and Albania during her travels, and eventually became a Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | Ethel M. Dell | EMD
was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant
and her father a Catholic
who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD
adopted... |
Cultural formation | Una Troubridge | Throughout her investigation into spiritualism, UT
felt herself in conflict because the Roman Catholic Church
, to which she still remained devoted, had vetoed all spiritualist practices and beliefs. She was able, however, to find... |
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