“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Roman Catholic Church
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hilary Mantel | Its plot employs ghosts and revenants to satirize the bizarre machinations of the Roman Catholic Church
in the throes of change. Set in the mythical town of Fetherhoughton in the north of England in the... |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| Travel | Graham Greene | Commissioned by a London publishing house to write about the Mexican Catholic church
, GG
travelled to Mexico. 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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