Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray, 1911.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | This book takes up some of the same themes as The Lardners and the Laurelwoods, 1948. Through its narrator, the not entirely sympathetically presented Parson Carpenter, this novel offers another two-generation story of the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | The second part is devoted to France. MDF
laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism
: slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition
. She identifies... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Pearson | 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... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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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