Roman Catholic Church

The title of Not All Saints comes from an Irish proverb which is quoted on the title-page. The novel looks at Catholic girls growing up. The orphaned Netta Heath cheerfully faces the necessity of earning...

The book's title comes from the book of Job (a text on which MS had planned a monograph, and did write a related article). She was to write again, in The Only Problem...

Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and...

The issues of education and the Fenians mesh together here, as hardships caused by bad education often draw male characters to the movement. The local Fenian head has been born and educated in Ireland...

In the body of the novel ER pays little attention to her supposed source. She creates no fictitious narrator, and the style in which she relates the well-known story of Joan, or Jeanne (her peasant...

Its plot employs ghosts and revenants to satirize the bizarre machinations of the Roman Catholic Church in the throes of change. Set in the mythical town of Fetherhoughton in the north of England in the...

A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...

The book does not measure up to the force and clarity of the opening. The suggestively-named Deletia Granville is a mysterious, neglected young girl at the outset, pensive and literary, loving sublime nature and her...

Winterson conjures up an England ruled by a king, James I , obsessed with stamping out the twin evils of witchcraft and Catholicism . She identifies the original group on the hill with poor women...

She often took her Irish heritage and the nationalist cause, as well as nature, motherhood, and her Catholicism , as inspirations for her poetry.The Legend of the Sorrowful Mother, a narrative poem...

Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing...

The clash between Nonconformist and Roman Catholic faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration...

Commenting one last time on the state of Catholic schools, Laffan calls them highly destructive and immoral. The most dreadful thing of all is that the boys of the Priest's schools, of the Jesuits ...

COCE opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she...

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...