Roman Catholic Church

With a vulgar father and a mother ignorant of high society, Mary grows up unguided. A coquette and an heiress after her father's death, she secretly cares for the curate John Leigh, but flirts culpably...

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...

The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and...

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

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...

In Holland she reports in detail on horses and carriages, agriculture, the styles of dress and houses, customs like those for Sundays (solemn church attendance, followed by feasting, drinking and dancing). The bitterness...

This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland...

On one hand she lauds American religious feeling, especially as expressed in the New England States, but she calls slave-owning southerners hypocrites, and worries about the effect of Catholicism in the mid-Western states of Illinois...

Winterson conjures up an England ruled by a king, James I , obsessed with stamping out the twin evils of witchcraft and Catholicism . She identifies the original group on the hill with poor women...

She often took her Irish heritage and the nationalist cause, as well as nature, motherhood, and her Catholicism , as inspirations for her poetry.The Legend of the Sorrowful Mother, a narrative poem...

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...

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...

The viewpoint here is that of the narrator, Charles Ryder, as he looks back nostalgically from his current army milieu to the vanished privilege of an English country house and an Oxford college. Ryder is...

Linked Lives features another orphan heroine, the well-born, highly romantic Mabel Forrester. The purpose of the novel is to show Mabel's progress towards embracing the Roman Catholic faith. Mabel, however, virtually shares the position of...

Here she does not spare her vituperation against the new king's Catholic advisors, and is equally outspoken in her own resolve to sacrifice one hundred lives in the king's service if she had them.