Roman Catholic Church

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...

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

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...

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...

She says in her preface: Again and again Boccaccio repeated that he wrote for women's instruction and delight, yet none but men have written about him. She called the Decameronthat radiant and lovely...

The sequel follows Robert's idealised, but doomed, relationship with Bridget, the heroine of the previous novel. After trials that culminate in Bridget's learning that her first husband is still alive, the couple split, and Robert...

In an essay signed A Rustic Rambler, ATG compared the forms of Roman Catholicism practised in England and in Continental Europe.

SH 's revised or reformed version of John Austin 's popular Roman CatholicDevotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, 1668, was published through George Hickes . Austin concealed himself under the name of William Birchley.

SWM also pioneered the sonnet in America and wrote hymns for several different denominations. Her tolerance for different beliefs and movements appears in Reanimation, a Hymn for the Humane Society (an organization dedicated to saving...

Henry Moore included in his life of MBF two letters she wrote to Samuel Walter (one before and one after he came as curate to Madeley) and two which she wrote to an unnamed Roman Catholic