Roman Catholic Church

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

TM handles her narrative with her usual skill, informing her scenes and her people with life through telling detail. The story opens in the voice of Florens, who can remember being with her mother as...

The book is headed with romantic lines from Thomas Davies [sic] about successive migrants and visitors to Ireland, from the brown Phoenician to the iron Lords of Normandy. The next epigraph comes from Burns

The work is often described as epistolary; it is written in the first person, in letters which are varied with sketches that read almost like diary entries. Through the letters and sketches of the...

This novel focuses on Beatrice, an orphan of mysterious origin who ends up after a shipwreck in the imaginary Scottish village of Clanmarina. She is taken in by Sir Evan McAlpine, and Lady Edith, 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

AK 's interpretation casts the story in religious terms, depicting the warring tribes of Gepidæ and Langobards as enemies because of their differing beliefs. While the Langobards are Christians (though AK is careful to note...

A spirited female narrator (who resembles CL herself in much though not all of her experience) tells the story of her past life to a dear friend. Harriot is an intellectual heroine, a keen reader...

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...

The protagonist of The Deserter is a young Irish soldier in the British army. When he deserts (having got into bad company) he is arrested and re-possessed by the army. Serving in India, he...

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...

There follows a series of six stories under the general title A Sketch from the Parlour of my Inn, three of which open with quotations from William Wordsworth . The final story in this...

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...

Despite her own past conversion, JB says she has made her French author speak the English of the Church of England, in an unusual attempt to bring Catholic devotional practices to the attention of devout...

Early in the story two young men, Dirk and Thierry, decide to study the dark arts. After they put a curse on a fellow-student they are accused of witchcraft and their apparatus discovered, but they...