Roman Catholic Church

The issues of education and the Fenians mesh together here, as hardships caused by bad education often draw male characters to the movement. The local Fenian head has been born and educated in Ireland...

In the body of the novel ER pays little attention to her supposed source. She creates no fictitious narrator, and the style in which she relates the well-known story of Joan, or Jeanne (her peasant...

Its plot employs ghosts and revenants to satirize the bizarre machinations of the Roman Catholic Church in the throes of change. Set in the mythical town of Fetherhoughton in the north of England in the...

The book does not measure up to the force and clarity of the opening. The suggestively-named Deletia Granville is a mysterious, neglected young girl at the outset, pensive and literary, loving sublime nature and her...

The clash between Nonconformist and Roman Catholic faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration...

PW 's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Her Seymour family explore Europe: they see a mountain storm in Switzerland and an earthquake in Sicily. The...

Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing...

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

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. She begins with...

Commenting one last time on the state of Catholic schools, Laffan calls them highly destructive and immoral. The most dreadful thing of all is that the boys of the Priest's schools, of the Jesuits ...

COCE opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she...

The primacy of Christianity, and especially the Roman Catholic faith, underpins the novel's morality. As a child Princess Charlotte has been inoculated against faith, but she later rebels against this training. She is instructed in...

The first part of this volume revolves around MMG 's parents, particularly her father, who had recently died. The second part moves from the personal to encompass also the political, and revolves around dialogue: between...

The poems in this collection include Kismet, Lovers at the Lake Side, and Nature, for Nature's Sake. Several of the poems explore more dark and serious matters. The Maid-Martyr, for example...

In this historically-based essay CD sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. She begins with the worship of the female principle in ancient Egypt, Greece...