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GF is still struggling here with the relative merits of fiction and biography. Her preface puts forward the idea that when a biography is able to present its readers with a reflection of their own...

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...

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 ...

The nurse of the title is Marie Louise Habets , who had been a nun for seventeen years, but had left her religious Order before she met the US Protestant Kathryn Hulme when both were...

Since the earlier novel, Self-Indulgence, had been allegedly forgotten twenty years before, LCB said she had rewritten it with all names and some background events changed. Donneraile is now Lord Fitzharris, and his...

MF 's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican , Roman Catholic

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 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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...