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Early in the story two young men, Dirk and Thierry, decide to study the dark arts. After they put a curse on a fellow-student they are accused of witchcraft and their apparatus discovered, but they...

Plumptre explains her choice of subject matter by admitting that she feels a peculiar sympathy with those humbler seekers after truth—too great to be content with the ephemeral pleasures of the hour, not great enough...

Helen Heineman describes this book as a pastiche of seances, mesmerism, Roman Catholic conversions, wicked guardians, and social class snobbery that displays a distinct decline in FT 's writing abilities.

At the start of her writing career, in 1885, KT was revered as the next Catholic woman poet to succeed Christina Rossetti . She herself held firmly to this image even while her Parnellism and...

In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove welcomed EJ as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. Other...

GF serialized in the newly founded Catholic journal The Month her faux-autobiographical novel Constance Sherwood, about persecution of Roman Catholics during the English Reformation.

Having decided to leave Simon and Schuster , CS submitted this work in manuscript to Angus Cameron of Little Brown , but she may have done this too early, since he replied that it needed...

CMB published her first collection of short stories, titled Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy. The material in this volume had originally appeared in the Catholic magazine called The Lamp.

At the age of twenty-five ML published in Fraser's Magazine the anonymous article Convent Boarding-Schools for Young Ladies, an attack on the Catholic system of women's education.

KT took up journalism to make money. She wrote sketches, short stories, and articles for British and US journals, many of them Catholic , including the Boston Pilot, the Providence Sunday Journal, the...

EMC was a frequent, lifelong contributor to both English and Italian periodicals. She wrote for the journal of the Manchester Geographical Society , National Review, Contemporary Review, Gentleman's Magazine, and (less frequently...

LLH was a Roman Catholic who became a prioress and published at least three devotional works during the early eighteenth century. She may also have written advice on teaching in the convent.

Publishing all through the 1840s and the 1880s, GF worked in a variety of genres, including poetry, biography, drama, and most notably the novel. While many of her eleven novels adopt tropes from sensation fiction...

EW was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He...

SH 's intense involvement in the religious controversies of the later seventeenth century led her to study, write, and publish texts both theological and devotional, often adapting Roman Catholic sources to make them usable by...