Saint Mary Magdalen

Standard Name: Mary Magdalen, Saint
Used Form: Mary Magdalene
Used Form: St Mary Magdalen

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Katharine Tynan
KT opens this volume (like her Ballads and Lyrics) with a prefatory poem that is modest, if not apologetic: A small monotonous song I sing, / My notes are faint and few.
Tynan, Katharine. Cuckoo Songs. Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894.
ix
The...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Christina Rossetti
Here she associates the figure of Mary Magdalene with the bride of the Song of Songs, countering the dominant Victorian characterization of her as a prostitute by focusing on the loyalty, love, and instinct...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michèle Roberts
This volume brings together pieces from various occasions and venues. In them MR discusses many of her favourite topics—the food, sex and god named in her title, the second and third often involving the relation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Ann Browne
One of these poems presents Mary Magdalene as the archetypal fallen woman, now ransomed and redeemed from guilt!
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. “’Thou with Earth’s Music Answerest to the Sky’: Felicia Hemans, Mary Anne Browne, and the Myth of Poetic Sisterhood”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
2
, No. 3, 1995, pp. 251-69.
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