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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Underhill | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | Written specifically for use in Sunday Schools, it relates the sufferings of Protestant Martyrs such as Anne Askew
, Katherine Hut
, and Elizabeth Thackvel
. The sufferings of Anne Askew (here seen as martyr... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jemima Kindersley | JK
's style is plain, vigorous, and effective. She is consistently attentive to the details of women's lives and to the effects of history, politics, race, and religion in the various cultures she visits. Though... |
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... |
Travel | Graham Greene | Commissioned by a London publishing house to write about the Mexican Catholic church
, GG
travelled to Mexico. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 15 Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 78 |
Travel | Elizabeth Jennings | The award required that its winner spend three months in a foreign country, observing the ways of people in another culture. EJ
felt most grateful for the enjoyable experience, terming her Italian travels the happiest... |
Violence | Lady Lucy Herbert | The Lincoln's Inn Fields house of Lord Powis
(recently released after years in prison on suspicion of treasonable Catholic
plotting, father of future writers Lucy
and Winifred
) was burned to the ground by chance... |
Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
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