Marsin, M. A Full and Clear Account the Scripture gives of the Deity. John Gouge.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lucas Malet | She expresses here an interest in comparative religion which may distantly herald her eventual conversion. She refers to the battering-ram qualities of Protestantism and the charmed and glorified, the rich and magical atmosphere of Catholic |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | M. Marsin | She points out that Saint Paul
had been taught by his mother and grandmother; she decries Mans Scholastick Learning, which, she says, has too frequently been set up to contradict the Scriptures; Marsin, M. A Full and Clear Account the Scripture gives of the Deity. John Gouge. 9 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Graham Greene | Centred on a corrupt, alcoholic Catholic priest, who is never named, it is one of six of Greene's novels that take Catholicism
as a central theme. GG
thought it the most satisfactory of his novels.... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, pp. 3-14. 7 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Swanwick | AS
begins with the feelings that assailed her when she first stood on a summit and contemplated the prospect of transcendent magnificence, the peaks and glaciers of the Alps. Such, she says, is the prospect... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Charles | It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jemima Kindersley | JK
's style is plain, vigorous, and effective. She is consistently attentive to the details of women's lives and to the effects of history, politics, race, and religion in the various cultures she visits. Though... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jean Plaidy | JP
paints the young Joan of Arc as deeply spiritual and already aspiring to sainthood: Jeannette knew that many girls and boys were interested in each other . . . . She wanted none of... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jemima Kindersley | At Salvador in Brazil she finds an oppressive government reflected in the domestic oppression of wives and daughters. She notes the high numbers of monks and nuns (3,000 in the town), the power of the... |
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