Roman Catholic Church

Here she does not spare her vituperation against the new king's Catholic advisors, and is equally outspoken in her own resolve to sacrifice one hundred lives in the king's service if she had them.

Here MR recounts her experiences as a budding writer and a member of the women's movement in London. She writes of her Catholic upbringing, of living in communes and building and surviving relationships. Her...

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...

Linked Lives features another orphan heroine, the well-born, highly romantic Mabel Forrester. The purpose of the novel is to show Mabel's progress towards embracing the Roman Catholic faith. Mabel, however, virtually shares the position of...

The clash between Nonconformist and Roman Catholic faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration...

This traces mystical beliefs and practice from the Bible, through the early days of Christianity, the medieval Catholic mysticism of England and various European countries, to seventeenth-century Protestant beliefs and practices, and finally to...

Madge Dunraven also differs widely in its presentation of Catholicism both from HJ 's first and second novels. Along with her positive portrait of Irish philanthropy, she presents Catholic characters as living their religion, while...

Here she writes also about the English Civil War as a way of writing about the First World War. She writes in a similarly veiled manner about her own religious struggles at a time when...

These jaunty poems contrast with a gothic-toned narrative about a party of boar-hunters who are joined by a mysterious White Knight who seems to be on a temporary pass out of Hell. SP speculates on...

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

MDF 's first poem here, Innocence in Bonds, A Dialogue dated 14 August 1780, in which the speakers are Truth and the Muse, refers to her previous publication, to martyrs (implicitly Protestants) who died at...

EU celebrates the life of this singer, poet, lawyer, and mystic as one marked by extraordinary (Catholic ) spiritual awareness, though his texts have not been officially adopted by the Church: Called, like Dante

JS portrays Portugal too as an unhappy land, full of oppressive regulations and of officers exacting fines and fees from travellers. Upper-class women are virtual prisoners in their homes; marriage without consent is savagely punished...

The novel consistently attacks Roman Catholics as prejudiced, supersititious, and dangerously under the thrall of their priests. Through O'Brien, HJ blames the poor for their own poverty, painting them as stupidly resistant to change that...

MR 's account of her first voyage (based on journals kept at the time) enthusiastically describes tropical birds, flying fish, marine phosphorescence, and waterspouts; the markets, salt pans, and mountains of St Kitts. She...