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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Material Conditions of Writing | Lucas Malet | The Far Horizon, which LM
published four years after her conversion to Roman Catholicism
, was a new departure for her, a religious novel which was perceived as proselytising. Malet, Lucas. “Introduction”. The History of Sir Richard Calmady, edited by Talia Schaffer, University of Birmingham Press, p. ix - xxxii. xii TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 254 (23 November 1906): 394 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Charlotte Mary Brame | |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Mary Howitt | After her conversion to Catholicism
on 26 May 1882 (in her eighties) she wrote only for Catholic periodicals and for Good Words. Her final publication for this latter journal appeared in 1887, the year... |
| Literary Setting | Monica Furlong | This short novel, a blend of fairytale, adventure story, didacticism, the occult, and a study of an orphan finding herself, is set in the seventh century in the kingdom of Dalriada (now the Isle of... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Pearson | First the son, Lord Bellton, gives the medallion to his mistress before leaving on the Grand Tour, but it is thrown away and makes another picaresque progress through the hands of a French military commander... |
| Literary Setting | E. Nesbit | The short-story volume Something Wrong includes Man-Size in Marble, a ghost story set around the actual Brenzett Church in Romney Marsh. The Brenzett village website (in 2011) says that the church is worth... |
| Literary Setting | May Laffan | The tale begins in August 1873, and concerns two middle-class, Catholic
families living in Dublin: the Carews and the O'Neils. Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT. 139 |
| Literary Setting | Margaret Holford | The Conspirator is historical, dealing with Sir Everard Digby
's participation in the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, largely from the point of view of his wife. Mary, Lady Digby
, intensely sensitive and... |
| Literary Setting | Frances Brooke | This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB
drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic... |
| Literary Setting | Anna Kingsford | The action of Beatrice takes place in Rome between 303 and 305 A.D.. The novel is a historical fictionalisation of the Christian persecutions of the Diocletian
era, using the martyrdom story of the eponymous heroine... |
| Literary responses | Hannah Lynch | Blackwood's Magazine introduced the serialization of this book with a half-promise of its being a clef: It is, we believe, the faithful narrative of an actual experience, the work of a powerful writer whose identity... |
| Literary responses | Monica Furlong | Ruth McCurry
in the Times Literary Supplement found this biography at once accurate and sympathetic. Saint Thérèse, said McCurry, could have been shown as a victim either of nineteenth-century provincial French society, or of an... |
| Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan
's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to... |
| Literary responses | Willa Cather | Michael Williams
in The Commonweal called this book a wonderful demonstration of the artist's power, in that Cather had steeped her story in Roman Catholic
spirituality as no Catholic American writer could have done. Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf. 13 |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | H. F. Chorley
reviewed it in the Athenæum, noting that, even though from the earliest announcement of her plan we were convinced that Madeleine would get her hospital built, there was no avoiding being... |
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