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Textual Features | Leonora Carrington | The play comprises its characters' conversation about and preparation for their feast, during which Montezuma leads a jovial yet sharp attack on rituals and narratives of Christianity
. It concludes with the arrival of the... |
Textual Features | Sarah Macnaughtan | The story follows a young Scotsman, intriguingly named Selah Harrison, who struggles to cope with the contrast between God's love and the misery of the poor in the world. He asks himself: Why did children... |
Textual Features | Catherine Marsh | The short memorial, which is only about ninety pages or so, details the death of a doctor, G. Reeve
, who was dying of consumption and almost took his own life with poison to end... |
Textual Features | Hannah More | HM
stresses the equality of black people with white, not just in soul but in thought or mind and in feeling. She draws a parallel between pagan African religions and that of ancient Rome... |
Textual Features | Lady Hester Pulter | LHP
's source appears to be the romance titled The Life and Death of Muhammad, 1637, which until recently was ascribed to Sir Walter Raleigh
. The Unfortunate Florinda traces the motive for the... |
Textual Features | Mary Robinson | Her postscript to the volume invokes Wordsworth
as model (as, indeed, her title invokes the joint work of Wordsworth and Coleridge
). Her titles (like The Shepherd's Dog and The Poor, Singing Dame) copy... |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | EW
published an entirely new departure for him, a historical novel, Helena, about the mother
of the Emperor Constantine
, who converted her son to Christianity
and is said to have discovered the cross... |
Textual Production | Anna Kingsford | In her final will and testament, AK
bequeathed all her unpublished and incomplete manuscripts to Edward Maitland
, who released them to the public in the years following her death. These included: a book of... |
Textual Production | Monica Furlong | |
Textual Production | Edna Lyall | In 1901 she contributed another introduction, this time to Joseph Joshua Green
's War: Is it or is it not consistent with Christianity
?, whose first edition, too, dated from this year. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia Kristeva | Le féminin et le sacré investigates the place of women in the domain of the sacred, and in various world religions. L'Incroyable besoin de croire argues that Christianity
paved the way for humanism. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | This is partly a book about change and modernization. RF
welcomed particularly the stamping out of tribal conflict and corruption in Iran, and the tolerance newly extended to Jews
, Christians
, and Zoroastrians |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Leonora Carrington | Pushing against the femme-enfant who frequently emerges at the centre of surrealist art and writing, this book's heroine, Marion Leatherby, is a ninety-two-year-old crone. She is described by her grandson as a drooling sack of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Henrietta Müller | The Yoga of Christ, or the Science of the Soul claims to illuminate, at least in part, the Truth, divine and living of Jesus
's words. These, it says, had for centuries lain hidden beneath... |
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