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KT took up journalism to make money. She wrote sketches, short stories, and articles for British and US journals, many of them Catholic , including the Boston Pilot, the Providence Sunday Journal, the...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Her protagonist, Josephine, is as a child deeply impressed by two sights on the same day: a fat lady, gaudily dressed, daringly walking a tightrope, and a burning of heretics by the Inquisition. Josephine identifies...

SS 's modesty was well founded. The novel that follows is a more conventional romance than any of Richardson 's, though it makes much reference to Sir Charles Grandison, and also cites Pamela (though...

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...

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

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...

Despite her own past conversion, JB says she has made her French author speak the English of the Church of England, in an unusual attempt to bring Catholic devotional practices to the attention of devout...

Early in the story two young men, Dirk and Thierry, decide to study the dark arts. After they put a curse on a fellow-student they are accused of witchcraft and their apparatus discovered, but they...

This novel focuses on Beatrice, an orphan of mysterious origin who ends up after a shipwreck in the imaginary Scottish village of Clanmarina. She is taken in by Sir Evan McAlpine, and Lady Edith, his...

The wife, Jessie Enderby, is much younger than the middle-aged colonel. She is presented (by a male narrator who sees himself as a social historian and social critic) not as the passive victim of a...