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It records the thinking that led her to return from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of England . CT uses the first person, in a clear, confident style, hammering her opponents with rhetorical questions.

The letters provide a detailed account of the thirty-nine-year love affair between STW and Ackland . The pair wrote letters to each other whether they were apart or together, and the result is an intimate...

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 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...

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...

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

The protagonist of The Deserter is a young Irish soldier in the British army. When he deserts (having got into bad company) he is arrested and re-possessed by the army. Serving in India, he...

Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy was put out by the Catholic publishing firm of Burns and Oates : the Sisters of Mercy belonged to an Irish nursing Order. The book seems...

Fisher had been Bishop of Rochester when he incurred Henry's wrath for opposing his first divorce, and was executed on 22 June 1535. He was regarded by the Catholic Church as a saint and martyr...

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...

Only a few months later there came from MBL another war novel, Lilla: A Part of her Life, about a woman whose husband is presumed lost in action but returns to find her remarried...

The stages of CH 's struggle to embrace Catholicism must have been charted in the letters she exchanged with the Prioress of St Monica's and other religious advisers, and with her father. The bulk of...

Many of ML 's letters to the publishing firm of Macmillan (to George Augustin Macmillan especially) survive. In 1884 she wrote a short manifesto on education for Catholic girls in the form of a letter...