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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 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.
Morgan, anonymous like all Athenæum reviewers, seems at first to be distancing herself from the author in terms of gender...
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 Hannah Lynch
Blackwood's Magazine introduced the serialization of this book with a half-promise of its being a clef: It is, we believe, the faithful narrative of an actual experience, the work of a powerful writer whose identity...
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 .
Welsch, Camille-Yvette. “New Irish poets”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 9, June 2003, pp. 17-18.
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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.
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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 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 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.
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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...

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