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Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | |
Textual Features | Mary Julia Young | Ill-fortune overtakes Elinor: someone else's need induces her to pawn her jewels and other possessions, thus bringing her into contact with Moses, a Jewish moneylender. Moses (who speaks with an accent: d for th,... |
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 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bequeathed all her unpublished and incomplete manuscripts to Edward Maitland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 | 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 | 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 | Monica Furlong | This book reflects MF
's wide reading and an impish sense of humour employed to help her and her readers live with the unacceptable. Each chapter comes headed by a very funny cartoon and a... |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Monica Furlong | MF
begins her introduction with Saint Thérèse as exemplar of that style of traditional female sanctity which involves drastic self-abnegation, with Sackville-West
's attribution to her of niaiserie or sugariness, and with her own consequent... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Nooth | Nooth's version begins with an introductory chapter on prejudice, which she defines as an opinion adopted upon hearsay, usually as a result of [i]ndolence, ignorance, a passive deference to authority, interest and pride. Gregoire, Henri. Essay on the Nobility of the Skin. Translator Nooth, Charlotte, Setier. 1 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Frances Billington | From her concluding chapter, it is clear that MFB
was deeply invested in the teachings of Christianity
and attributed the sacrifices of serving women to its widespread principles. She writes: The noble army of serving... |
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