Scenes and Hymns of Life includes Prisoners' Evening Service, which imagines the last days of two prisoners awaiting execution during the French Revolution, and affectingly described by Helen Maria Williams
.
Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson
and Wordsworth
; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray
and Crabbe
, and wrote several poems inspired...
Intertextuality and Influence
Christina Rossetti
In what some consider her most ambitious religious work, she continues here her meditations on the female characters of the Bible. The text envisions the moment at which Eve
, the Virgin Mary
...
Cultural formation
Anna Kingsford
According to Maitland, she began the process of conversion to Catholicism after three nocturnal visitations
Maitland, Edward. Anna Kingsford. George Redway.
1: 15
from an apparition that appeared to her in the form of St Mary Magdalen
. She was confirmed...