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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... |
Author summary | Monica Furlong | MF
was a Christian feminist who began as a journalist and went on to a prolific late-twentieth-century output of books. She published poetry, a couple of novels, stories for children, biographies of remarkable Christians, collected... |
politics | Mary Carpenter | MC
was impartially critical of various Hindu
, Muslim
, and Parsi
practices, but realised that her reforms had to proceed without attempting to convert Indian women from their religion. She was convinced that Christianity |
Literary Setting | Rosemary Sutcliff | This book returns to the community of former Norsemen who are now living in the Lake District, and whom Sutcliff depicted in The Shield Ring. During the early tenth century (re-created with her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Naomi Jacob | NJ
's father, Samuel Jacob
, had started life in Germany, the country to which his father had fled as a boy from Poland, after his parents were killed in pogroms. Longer ago... |
Cultural formation | Rosita Forbes | Her parents, she said (who were both members of the land-owning class, though in her father's case with strong egalitarian sympathies), had such a sensitive awareness of the next world that the permissible conveniences of... |
Cultural formation | Denise Levertov | Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England
, where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and... |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | At about the same time, too, she gradually adopted a personal commitment to Christianity
, with the help of her Anglican
parish priest, Joost de Blank
. |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | The Church ofEngland
was still resolved against ordaining women when in 1986 a vote was passed forbidding invitations to visiting, foreign women priests to celebrate Holy Communion. MF
and her associates responded by founding the... |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | |
Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | All that came to her, she believed, came by illumination because of a past birth, and because she pushed [herself] on to a point of spiritual evolution somewhat in advance of the rest of... |
Cultural formation | Catharine Trotter | While a young woman CT
converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism
, the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian
religion were of no importance... |
Cultural formation | Alice Walker | Raised as a Christian
in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
, AW
had an inclination towards the natural, the mystic, and the metaphysical. During the decline of her marriage she became a regular tarot card... |
Characters | Edna Lyall | As readers recognized at once, Luke Raeburn, the embattled atheist in this book, noticeably resembles the politician Charles Bradlaugh
, who was excluded from taking his seat in the House of Commons
after repeatedly being... |
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