Saint Teresa of Avila

She leant against the letter-box, dazzled and happy. She had first heard of the Princess of Eboli , around whom the novel revolves, in the letters of St Teresa of Avila .

Mysticism aims at nothing less than providing a comprehensive description, a philosophical analysis, and also . . . a justification of these experiences, regardless of the specific cultural and historical moments in which they occur...

Every Changing Shape was reprinted in 1996 by Carcanet Press with a foreword by Michael Schmidt . It collects essays on Christian writers and mystics that address the way that faith informs the creative imagination...

The different spiritual traditions represented here include ancient Greeks, medieval Christians, Buddhists, Jews, Australian Aboriginals and Native Americans. The authors of prayers include Teresa of Avila , Emily Dickinson , Denise Levertov , Oodgeroo Noonuccal , and Alice Walker .

MR published a novel entitled Impossible Saints; she has called her protagonist my version of St Teresa of Avila .

Teresa, My Love. An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila (an English version of JK 's Thérèse mon amour, 2008), variously described as a psychoanalytical novel and a biography, appeared from Columbia University Press

KOB combined several elements evident in one or another of her novels—her love of Spain, her interest in the past, and her fascination with the religious impulse—in a biography, Teresa of Avila.

She had a sustained admiration for the achievements of St Teresa . Her illustrated volume was reprinted at Cork in 1993.

In December 1870 she began writing Miss Brooke, a narrative which became part of Middlemarch as the history of its heroine. Not long after this she thought of combining this story of a daughter...

Virgil Thomson had set music to several poems by GS when he asked her to write an opera libretto for him in 1927. She had a longstanding interest in saints, especially Saint Teresa of Avila...

The eagle is St Teresa of Avila , patron saint of Spain; the dove is Thérèse of Lisieux , a highly popular saint known as the Little Flower. The work is a...

The first of these books addresses Freud 's concept of revolt against the fathers as the basis of individual maturation and independence, and seeks by looking at the lives of three distinguished modern social rebels...