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GF is still struggling here with the relative merits of fiction and biography. Her preface puts forward the idea that when a biography is able to present its readers with a reflection of their own...

The title is ironical, for LM argues that women's incursions into the masculine sphere threaten them with subjection, while personal and family relations set their talents free. She appeals here to the authority of the...

Yet often the political critique runs counter to the novel's religous concerns. Indeed, even as it attacks the outrageous conditions of the industrial poor, the novel seems to welcome the moral scourge they provide, as...

The letters provide a detailed account of the thirty-nine-year love affair between STW and Ackland . The pair wrote letters to each other whether they were apart or together, and the result is an intimate...

In Lady Mary Pierrepoint the title character is a Protestant whose virago widowed mother-in-law (Lady Pierrepont) intends to disinherit her son Sir Cosmo (Mary's husband) and leave her lands to the Roman Catholic Church ...

Since the earlier novel, Self-Indulgence, had been allegedly forgotten twenty years before, LCB said she had rewritten it with all names and some background events changed. Donneraile is now Lord Fitzharris, and his...

MF 's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican , Roman Catholic

The nurse of the title is Marie Louise Habets , who had been a nun for seventeen years, but had left her religious Order before she met the US Protestant Kathryn Hulme when both were...

Here she gives her appraisal of Catholic and Protestant views of women's rights, as well as a general discussion of the disappointingly slight interest in Italy in sexual equality.

The petitions mention the death of her husband, Captain James Butler , at the battle of Aughrim (a Williamite victory over Jacobite or Catholic forces), the deaths of her children, the loss of her house...

After these revelations the earl dies, leaving Laurie the bulk of his estate. Treated cruelly by her newly-discovered aunt and cousins because her appearance has dispossessed them of expected inheritance, Laurie finds some comfort in...

Her first piece of this kind, for Friendship's Offering, 1826, was titled A Tale of Ispahan and designed to supplement an engraving of that town from a sketch by her brother Sir Robert Ker Porter

This book is a sympathetic defence of Italy (to which it is dedicated) and the fruits of the Risorgimento against those who seemed to MAWungenerous and unjust towards the struggling Italian State.Mrs Browning

This trenchant, perceptive study of patriarchy is presented with the flamboyant tropes characteristic of Bremer's imagination. Hertha, like several of her other protagonists, has a tyrannical father and an invalid, less radical sister, Alma. She is...

In a subplot Adeline de Castella breaks with her beloved Frederick St John when her Catholic father forbids her to marry him. The emotion of their parting causes her to break a blood vessel, after...