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Characters Antonia Fraser
The wedding in the novel is to unite British royalty (in the person of Princess Amy) to a Roman Catholic spouse (in the person of Prince Ferdinand), for the first time since the Stuarts. Jemima...
Characters Georgiana Fullerton
Laurentia is another of Fullerton's historical novels, in this case written with the intent of providing a picture of the Church of Japan in the sixteenth century, and to illustrate in the shape of a...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Georgiana Fullerton
The primacy of Christianity, and especially the Roman Catholic faith, underpins the novel's morality. As a child Princess Charlotte has been inoculated against faith, but she later rebels against this training. She is instructed in...
Textual Features Georgiana Fullerton
In Mrs. Gerald's Niece Margaret, the heroine of Grantley Manor, is now Mrs Walter Sydney and is thirty-seven. The new novel engages with the Oxford Movement , detailing the doctrinal progression of Ita and...
Textual Features Georgiana Fullerton
GF is still struggling here with the relative merits of fiction and biography. Her preface puts forward the idea that when a biography is able to present its readers with a reflection of their own...
Textual Production Georgiana Fullerton
In addition to Craven's biography, 1899 saw the publication of The Inner Life of Lady Georgiana Fullerton, which incorporated material from GF 's diary, letters, and notes or retreats. This work was written...
Cultural formation Georgiana Fullerton
GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Wiseman, Nicholas, editor. The Dublin Review. Burns and Oates.
20 (October 1888): 324
Publishing Georgiana Fullerton
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.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index. http://c19index.chadwyck.com/home.do.
Author summary Georgiana Fullerton
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Georgiana Fullerton
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.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...
Characters Georgiana Fullerton
A Roman Catholic widow feels after the death of her weak-natured husband that she has been unfaithful to him in her soul. She therefore declines the hand of a deserving man who has long loved...
Cultural formation Monica Furlong
MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...
Textual Features Monica Furlong
MF 's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican , Roman Catholic
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 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...

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