Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Catherine Cookson | CC
fell into severe depression once more. Her serious illness was compounded by pressure from various Catholic acquaintances and her own thoughts, which increasingly turned to death. In this condition she had a spiritual experience... |
Cultural formation | Blanche Warre Cornish | BWC
's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church
, and... |
Cultural formation | Blanche Warre Cornish | Some found BWC
's conversion to RomanCatholicism
puzzling, but an anonymous friend explained it by saying that she needed certainty. She was always passionate, always anxious to conclude. She could not make a pillow of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | 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... |
Cultural formation | Louisa Stuart Costello | |
Textual Features | May Crommelin | 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. Crommelin, May. Orange Lily. Ullans Press. 1 |
Cultural formation | Anne Dacier | Shortly before the revoking of the Edict of Nantes on 22 October (when as Protestants
they would have lost their claim to tolerance and religious freedom) AD
and her husband were received into the Roman Catholic Church |
Cultural formation | Dante Alighieri | He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | MDF
's first poem here, Innocence in Bonds, A Dialogue dated 14 August 1780, in which the speakers are Truth and the Muse, refers to her previous publication, to martyrs (implicitly Protestants) who died at... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Maria De Fleury | MDF
celebrates the Association
in a poem addressing it. Her book's full title is Unrighteous Abuse Detected and Chastised; or, A Vindication of Innocence and Integrity, Being an Answer to a Virulent Poem, Intituled, The... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | The second part is devoted to France. MDF
laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism
: slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition
. She identifies... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth De la Pasture | She came from an upper-class English family: her great-grandfather was a baronet. She was presumably a Roman Catholic
, since she married two Catholic husbands. |
Cultural formation | Teresa Deevy | TD
was an Irishwoman, presumably white, brought up in the Catholic Church
. Her parents belonged, says her editor, to the prosperous Waterford merchant class. Deevy, Teresa. “Chapter One, Ineffable Longings: the Dramas of Teresa Deevy”. Selected Plays of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, 1894-1963, edited by Éibhear Walshe, Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 1-15. 4 |
Cultural formation | E. M. Delafield | At twenty-one, having come of age, Edmée de la Pasture
(later EMD
) entered a Catholic
convent, the mother house of an enclosed order in Belgium. Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann. 12 |
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