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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...