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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... |
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... |
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. 78 |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Meeke | Something Odd! opens with a prefatory dialogue, The Author and his Pen, which consistently treats the author as male; he is addressed by the pen as master. It satirises both the Roman Catholic |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Dowriche | Critic Elaine V. Beilin
discerns the influence on AD
's text of John Foxe
's Actes and Monuments, 1563. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 172 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Hincks | EH
's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Oyeyemi | The main character, Maja Carmen Carrera, a black Jazz singer, immigrated from Cuba to London when she was five years old. Pregnant and living with her (white) Ghanaian husband (Aaron, a doctor), Maja struggles to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Selina Bunbury | This markedly anti-Catholic story (which goes out of its way to criticise the Jesuits
) begins in the twelfth century, when the abbey was founded. Rafroidi, Patrick. Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period (1789-1850). Humanities Press. 2: 83 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country Ward, Mary Augusta. Helbeck of Bannisdale. Editor Worthington, Brian, Penguin. 86 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan. 149 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Holland | A similar document, Chiefest Reasons Why I Became a Catholick, cites nine reasons, beginning with Catholicism's antiquity and unity, and ending with [s]uch rare examples of virtue in both sexes such as I could... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Maitland | SM
's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church
. Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Sinclair | CS
sets up a dichotomy between Protestantism
, which is based on the truth of Scripture, and Catholicism
, which rests on legends. Without the Bible, she writes, men would be mere weeds in... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism
. When her father demands whether... |
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