Brooke, Emma Frances. The Heir Without a Heritage. Richard Bentley and Son.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Gilding | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Frances Brooke | Judith Romilly progresses from an old and cramping belief onward to the next unfolding phase—to one tasting the joys of a loftier and more austere atmosphere Brooke, Emma Frances. The Heir Without a Heritage. Richard Bentley and Son. 2: 255 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ann Hawkshaw | The third section of the poem returns to the themes of immortality, impermanence, and the saving grace of Christianity
. Dionysius, visiting Myra's grave thirty years after her death, laments her loss but praises God... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jane Hume Clapperton | JHC
responds that Lathbury has missed several benefits that agnosticism offers to women and to society at large, including the exchange of truth for delusion, a standpoint from which clearness of thought and stability of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | While the twenty-two volumes cover a wide range of topics, eight of them directly address the history or practices of Christianity
and four focus on philosophical topics. These belonged, CFC
felt, to a subject complementary... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Kingsford | AK
's intention in The Perfect Way was to reveal the Ancient Doctrine of the Constitution of Existence and the Nature of Religion and to supply a system of thought and rule of life adapted... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catharine Trotter | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | CFC
's introduction regrets the effects of sectarian or partisan interpretations of primitive Christianity
. She firmly believed that in order to be the best possible Christian one should not only make a thorough study... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Kingsford | The book offers fragments of the Sacred Books of Hermes
, which arose from the latest productions of Greek philosophy yet contain some traces of the religious doctrine of ancient Eygpt. Trismegistus, Hermes. The Virgin of the World. Translators Kingsford, Anna and Edward Maitland, Wizards Book Shelf. ii |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Frances Isabella Duberly | The title-page quotes James Beattie
and Shakespeare
. For dedication, five stanzas from Longfellow
addressed to absent friends invoke again members of the Eighth Hussars
. FID
's preface declares her intention of reporting the... |
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 |
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