Hopton, Susanna. “A Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest”. A Second Collection of Controversial Letters, edited by George Hickes, Richard Sare, 1710.
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Textual Production | Sara Maitland | SM
provided an introduction to Antonia White
's The Hound and the Falcon (the novel in which White describes her return to the Roman Catholic Church
), when it was reprinted by Virago
in 1982... |
Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | 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... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Grymeston | In the first edition EG
's own prefatory epistle introduces fourteen chapters or sections. The book was clearly popular, since further editions followed in probably 1606, probably 1608 (with the altered title Miscellanea. Prayers. Meditations... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Roxburghe Lothian | RL
sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Marsh | The first half of the book details the deaths of several patients in the cholera wards whom CM
had visited and talked with about God. The second half asks the reader: Are you safe there... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Valentine Ackland | The letters are an intimate portrayal of the thirty-nine-year love affair between Warner and Ackland, from their first meeting until Ackland's death. Written when the two women were together and apart, the correspondence is a... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Hopton | SH
's letter begins by rebutting the charge of female inconstancy. It is, she writes, matter of great Humiliation to me to admit her theological mistake and to change her mind. Hopton, Susanna. “A Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest”. A Second Collection of Controversial Letters, edited by George Hickes, Richard Sare, 1710. 125 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Selina Bunbury | This markedly anti-Catholic story (which goes out of its way to criticise the Jesuits
) begins in the twelfth century, when the abbey was founded. Rafroidi, Patrick. Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period (1789-1850). Humanities Press, 1980, 2 vols. 2: 83 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Despard | In this historically-based essay CD
sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. Shaw, Frederick John, editor. The Case for Women’s Suffrage. Unwin, 1907. 190 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Georgiana Fullerton | The primacy of Christianity, and especially the Roman Catholic
faith, underpins the novel's morality. As a child Princess Charlotte has been inoculated against faith, but she later rebels against this training. She is instructed in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | The Catholic
clergy (in the person of Father Jim Corkran) comes under particular fire as selfish and insensible of Irish needs. The priest of Peatstown guides by fear and is utterly devoid of dignity, either... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Hall | This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucas Malet | She expresses here an interest in comparative religion which may distantly herald her eventual conversion. She refers to the battering-ram qualities of Protestantism and the charmed and glorified, the rich and magical atmosphere of Catholic |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Sinclair | CS
sets up a dichotomy between Protestantism
, which is based on the truth of Scripture, and Catholicism
, which rests on legends. Without the Bible, she writes, men would be mere weeds in... |
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