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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 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 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 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.
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Literary responses George Douglas
The same kind of negative contemporary response to GD 's Catholic agenda greeted The Red House by the River.
Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
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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.
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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.
Editing her memoirs, her second husband gave five or six...
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...
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.
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It revolves around the love-affairs of each family's eldest daughter: the eponymous Christina...
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...
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...

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