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| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Gerard Manley Hopkins | He intended his poem as a pindaric ode on a modern Catholic
martyrdom. It describes the raging force of the sea, the courage of the dominant nun who heartens her companions to die well, and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Graham Greene | Centred on a corrupt, alcoholic Catholic priest, who is never named, it is one of six of Greene's novels that take Catholicism
as a central theme. GG
thought it the most satisfactory of his novels.... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand
of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett. 1 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jean Ingelow | The poems in this collection include Kismet, Lovers at the Lake Side, and Nature, for Nature's Sake. Several of the poems explore more dark and serious matters. The Maid-Martyr, for example... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Medbh McGuckian | The first part of this volume revolves around MMG
's parents, particularly her father, who had recently died. The second part moves from the personal to encompass also the political, and revolves around dialogue: between... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Georgiana Fullerton | A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Oyeyemi | The main character, Maja Carmen Carrera, a black Jazz singer, immigrated from Cuba to London when she was five years old. Pregnant and living with her (white) Ghanaian husband (Aaron, a doctor), Maja struggles to... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Meeke | Something Odd! opens with a prefatory dialogue, The Author and his Pen, which consistently treats the author as male; he is addressed by the pen as master. It satirises both the Roman Catholic |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jeanette Winterson | Winterson conjures up an England ruled by a king, James I
, obsessed with stamping out the twin evils of witchcraft and Catholicism
. She identifies the original group on the hill with poor women... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | She often took her Irish heritage and the nationalist cause, as well as nature, motherhood, and her Catholicism
, as inspirations for her poetry. Hinkson, Pamela. “The Friendship of Yeats and Katharine Tynan, II: Later Days of the Irish Literary Movement”. The Fortnightly, No. 1043 n.s., pp. 323-36. 323 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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