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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

An occasional conformity bill was currently being debated, though it was not until 1711 that the practice of occasional conformity (whereby known Dissenters or Roman Catholics circumvent the ban on anyone except Anglicans holding public...

Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM again became involved politically when the House of Commons was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8...

Heaney, as a Catholic , came under political pressure to denounce British rule in Northern Ireland and to celebrate the IRA . But he continued to see two sides to the question, to admire certain...

After years of theological study had brought her back from the Roman Catholic to the Anglican church , SH addressed a detailed account of her shift in thinking to her former, Catholic mentor, Henry Turberville .

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...

The fact that this was the last book HM published is attributed by Tillotson to the difficulties of her divided life . . . . The very success of her books disturbed her, as a...