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A similar document, Chiefest Reasons Why I Became a Catholick, cites nine reasons, beginning with Catholicism's antiquity and unity, and ending with [s]uch rare examples of virtue in both sexes such as I could...

Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, and that it makes some criticism of the Church of England as well as the Catholic Church (but not of...

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...

In Holland she reports in detail on horses and carriages, agriculture, the styles of dress and houses, customs like those for Sundays (solemn church attendance, followed by feasting, drinking and dancing). The bitterness...

The book does not measure up to the force and clarity of the opening. The suggestively-named Deletia Granville is a mysterious, neglected young girl at the outset, pensive and literary, loving sublime nature and her...

Commenting one last time on the state of Catholic schools, Laffan calls them highly destructive and immoral. The most dreadful thing of all is that the boys of the Priest's schools, of the Jesuits ...

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...

Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism . When her father demands whether...

The viewpoint here is that of the narrator, Charles Ryder, as he looks back nostalgically from his current army milieu to the vanished privilege of an English country house and an Oxford college. Ryder is...

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...

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. She begins with...

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...

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. It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...

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...

COCE opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she...