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CMB published her first collection of short stories, titled Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy. The material in this volume had originally appeared in the Catholic magazine called The Lamp.

At the start of her writing career, in 1885, KT was revered as the next Catholic woman poet to succeed Christina Rossetti . She herself held firmly to this image even while her Parnellism and...

Helen Heineman describes this book as a pastiche of seances, mesmerism, Roman Catholic conversions, wicked guardians, and social class snobbery that displays a distinct decline in FT 's writing abilities.

In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove welcomed EJ as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. Other...

The title is ironical, for LM argues that women's incursions into the masculine sphere threaten them with subjection, while personal and family relations set their talents free. She appeals here to the authority of the...

The petitions mention the death of her husband, Captain James Butler , at the battle of Aughrim (a Williamite victory over Jacobite or Catholic forces), the deaths of her children, the loss of her house...

Yet often the political critique runs counter to the novel's religous concerns. Indeed, even as it attacks the outrageous conditions of the industrial poor, the novel seems to welcome the moral scourge they provide, as...

This book is a sympathetic defence of Italy (to which it is dedicated) and the fruits of the Risorgimento against those who seemed to MAWungenerous and unjust towards the struggling Italian State.Mrs Browning

In Lady Mary Pierrepoint the title character is a Protestant whose virago widowed mother-in-law (Lady Pierrepont) intends to disinherit her son Sir Cosmo (Mary's husband) and leave her lands to the Roman Catholic Church ...

After these revelations the earl dies, leaving Laurie the bulk of his estate. Treated cruelly by her newly-discovered aunt and cousins because her appearance has dispossessed them of expected inheritance, Laurie finds some comfort in...

Critic Ian Sansom notes the preference this poetry evinces for familiarity and tradition. He singles out for mention the opening poem, Death in Leamington (about the bleakness of a woman's death in lonely, genteel poverty),...

This trenchant, perceptive study of patriarchy is presented with the flamboyant tropes characteristic of Bremer's imagination. Hertha, like several of her other protagonists, has a tyrannical father and an invalid, less radical sister, Alma. She is...

In a subplot Adeline de Castella breaks with her beloved Frederick St John when her Catholic father forbids her to marry him. The emotion of their parting causes her to break a blood vessel, after...

Here she gives her appraisal of Catholic and Protestant views of women's rights, as well as a general discussion of the disappointingly slight interest in Italy in sexual equality.

The work is often described as epistolary; it is written in the first person, in letters which are varied with sketches that read almost like diary entries. Through the letters and sketches of the...