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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | Reviewer Camille-Yvette Welsch
read this poem as an allegory of the uneasy bonds joining pagan with Christian, Catholic
with Protestant
. |
| Literary responses | Evelyn Waugh | Most reviews were mocking in tone, in keeping with the late image of Waugh as a kind of Colonel Blimp. Philip Larkin
wrote that to be one of his correspondents one would have to have... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Elstob | George Hickes
had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England
against... |
| 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, 1949. 13 |
| Literary responses | George Douglas | |
| Literary responses | John Oliver Hobbes | In 1935 JOH
merited a chapter in Isabel Constance Clarke
's Six Portraits, a collection of essays on major women writers. Clarke argued that she was the pioneer of the Catholic novelist, Clarke, Isabel Constance. Six Portraits. Books for Libraries Press, 1967. 233 |
| Literary responses | Roxburghe Lothian | The book aroused the antagonism of Catholic
reviewers, not because of its author's gender (which remained cloaked behind her pseudonym) but because of its attitudes. 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. |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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, 2005. 139 |
| 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 | 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 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... |
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