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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | ML
repeats here the cautious approbation of religiously mixed marriage that she voiced in Hogan, M.P. Such marriages, she suggests, can bring disparate cultures together, but only if they are contracted with respect and love... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Michèle Roberts | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marie Belloc Lowndes | The title of Not All Saints comes from an Irish proverb which is quoted on the title-page. The novel looks at Catholic
girls growing up. The orphaned Netta Heath cheerfully faces the necessity of earning... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Spark | The book's title comes from the book of Job (a text on which MS
had planned a monograph, and did write a related article). Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 165 |
Textual Production | Marie Belloc Lowndes | Only a few months later there came from MBL
another war novel, Lilla: A Part of her Life, about a woman whose husband is presumed lost in action but returns to find her remarried... |
Textual Production | May Laffan | Many of ML
's letters to the publishing firm of Macmillan
(to George Augustin Macmillan
especially) survive. In 1884 she wrote a short manifesto on education for Catholic
girls in the form of a letter... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | After EW
's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of... |
Textual Production | Charlotte Mary Brame | Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy was put out by the Catholic
publishing firm of Burns and Oates
: the Sisters of Mercy
belonged to an Irish nursing Order. The book seems... |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Grymeston | In the first edition EG
's own prefatory epistle introduces fourteen chapters or sections. The book was clearly popular, since further editions followed in probably 1606, probably 1608 (with the altered title Miscellanea. Prayers. Meditations... |
Textual Production | Adelaide Procter | AP
published A Chaplet of Verses, a slim volume in aid of the Providence Row Night Refuge
for Homeless Women and Children in Moorfields, London, England's first Catholic
refuge of this type. This... |
Textual Production | Sarah Wentworth Morton | SWM
also pioneered the sonnet in America and wrote hymns for several different denominations. Her tolerance for different beliefs and movements appears in Reanimation, a Hymn for the Humane Society (an organization dedicated to saving... |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | An occasional conformity bill was currently being debated, though it was not until 1711 that the practice of occasional conformity (whereby known Dissenters
or Roman Catholics
circumvent the ban on anyone except Anglicans holding public... |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Henry Moore included in his life of MBF
two letters she wrote to Samuel Walter
(one before and one after he came as curate to Madeley) and two which she wrote to an unnamed Roman Catholic |
Textual Production | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published her first proselytizing religious pamphlet, A Friendly Address to Converts from the Roman Catholic Church. Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research. 307 |
Textual Production | Catherine Sinclair | While in her works for young people CS
gained a reputation for keeping a bright tone even in moralising, her writing for adults centres on heavily didactic texts in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church |
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