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Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
Violence | Lady Lucy Herbert | The Lincoln's Inn Fields house of Lord Powis
(recently released after years in prison on suspicion of treasonable Catholic
plotting, father of future writers Lucy
and Winifred
) was burned to the ground by chance... |
Travel | Elizabeth Jennings | The award required that its winner spend three months in a foreign country, observing the ways of people in another culture. EJ
felt most grateful for the enjoyable experience, terming her Italian travels the happiest... |
Travel | Graham Greene | Commissioned by a London publishing house to write about the Mexican Catholic church
, GG
travelled to Mexico. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 15 Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf. 78 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Oyeyemi | The main character, Maja Carmen Carrera, a black Jazz singer, immigrated from Cuba to London when she was five years old. Pregnant and living with her (white) Ghanaian husband (Aaron, a doctor), Maja struggles to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Meeke | Something Odd! opens with a prefatory dialogue, The Author and his Pen, which consistently treats the author as male; he is addressed by the pen as master. It satirises both the Roman Catholic |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Gerard Manley Hopkins | He intended his poem as a pindaric ode on a modern Catholic
martyrdom. It describes the raging force of the sea, the courage of the dominant nun who heartens her companions to die well, and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Graham Greene | Centred on a corrupt, alcoholic Catholic priest, who is never named, it is one of six of Greene's novels that take Catholicism
as a central theme. GG
thought it the most satisfactory of his novels.... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, pp. 3-14. 7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Maitland | SM
's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church
. Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Sinclair | CS
sets up a dichotomy between Protestantism
, which is based on the truth of Scripture, and Catholicism
, which rests on legends. Without the Bible, she writes, men would be mere weeds in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Marsh | The first half of the book details the deaths of several patients in the cholera wards whom CM
had visited and talked with about God. The second half asks the reader: Are you safe there... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | Written specifically for use in Sunday Schools, it relates the sufferings of Protestant Martyrs such as Anne Askew
, Katherine Hut
, and Elizabeth Thackvel
. The sufferings of Anne Askew (here seen as martyr... |
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