Saint Mary Magdalen

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

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Textual Features Elizabeth Gaskell
This is the contentious core of the novel: that the seducer's sin of seduction is far graver than that of an innocent girl who lets herself be seduced. Ruth's faults are called venial errors...
Textual Features Lady Charlotte Elliot
The title piece, in Spenserian stanzas with an ababccdcc rhyme scheme, depicts Mary Magdalene being cajoled by Salome to seize the day. Mary, the poem's major speaker,                 weep[s] and moan[s]
  For wantonness of feasts and...
Textual Production Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
Elizabeth Cary Falkland wrote verse lives of Mary Magdalen , Saint Agnes , and St Elizabeth of Portugal , and many poems about the Virgin Mary and various saints.
Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, pp. 183-75.
213-14
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!
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, pp. 251-69.
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