Roman Catholic Church

Having decided to leave Simon and Schuster , CS submitted this work in manuscript to Angus Cameron of Little Brown , but she may have done this too early, since he replied that it needed...

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...

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...

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...

The Italian protagonist, Carla Verdi, lives in a suburb of Los Angeles with her thirteen-year-old son, while her husband is temporarily absent in Italy. The novel builds up the daily texture of her life, her...

Her first piece of this kind, for Friendship's Offering, 1826, was titled A Tale of Ispahan and designed to supplement an engraving of that town from a sketch by her brother Sir Robert Ker Porter

AK 's interpretation casts the story in religious terms, depicting the warring tribes of Gepidæ and Langobards as enemies because of their differing beliefs. While the Langobards are Christians (though AK is careful to note...

The protagonist of these books, Guy Crouchback, is a middle-aged Roman Catholic, divorced from his wife, Virginia (though not in the eyes of the Church , which therefore does not regard a sexual fling with...

TM handles her narrative with her usual skill, informing her scenes and her people with life through telling detail. The story opens in the voice of Florens, who can remember being with her mother as...

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

Plumptre explains her choice of subject matter by admitting that she feels a peculiar sympathy with those humbler seekers after truth—too great to be content with the ephemeral pleasures of the hour, not great enough...

A spirited female narrator (who resembles CL herself in much though not all of her experience) tells the story of her past life to a dear friend. Harriot is an intellectual heroine, a keen reader...

There follows a series of six stories under the general title A Sketch from the Parlour of my Inn, three of which open with quotations from William Wordsworth . The final story in this...