Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 | George Douglas | |
| 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 | 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 | Georgiana Chatterton | The book had the honour of being reviewed for the Athenæum by Sydney Morgan
. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. |
| 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |
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