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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...

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...

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.

It was LLH who persuaded her sister Winifred to write out the full story of how she engineered her husband's escape from the Tower and who then preserved and apparently circulated the story. She no...

Lady Tyrwhit and her husband continued to prosper through the reign of Queen Mary . Susan M. Felch points out that long before she was a persecutor of Protestants, Mary had participated in the humanist...

She wrote, in 1886 and 1891-2, several letters protesting against the first and second Home Rule Bills which sought to reduce British political and religious control over Ireland. Her anti-Home-Rule stance was no doubt...

It seems that her conversion to Catholicism must have involved some change in the political views she had held so long and so passionately, since Garibaldi was in his lifetime an icon of anti-Catholicism, and...

Entertaining Knox was a politically dangerous thing for Locke and her husband to do under Queen Mary . A few years later, when Anne Locke left England, her motives no doubt included a religio-political element—she...

Though all the English at St-Germain were Jacobites this did not mean they were all in agreement. There were deep and sometimes acrimonious divisions among them over tactics, principles, and especially allegiances. JB was a...

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...

As well as strongly opposing the convent or the clerical education system, ML took a strong interest in the Irish university problem. When she was writing her novels Catholics were discouraged from attending the long-established...

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...

He published several politically-charged works that highlighted his Irish patriotism, particularly his outrage at Ireland's disadvantages under English rule. These titles included satirical poetry (Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters, 1828)...

CMB 's writing career began soon after she finished her education, with short stories submitted to the penny Catholic periodical The Lamp while she was working as a governess for a family in Leicestershire...

In writing this novel she had to struggle with worsening ill-health, and with her distress and anxiety over her brother John Henry as his pilgrimage of belief took him steadily closer towards joining the Roman Catholic Church