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Education | Marina Warner | Life in the convent was quite regimented: we were all marched in line and we all sang songs together and we learned everything by heart. Zabus, Chantal et al. “Spinning a Yarn with Marina Warner”. Kunapipi, Vol. 16 , No. 1, Dangaroo Press, pp. 519-29. 519 |
Education | Marina Warner | Here, she learned the practices of examining her conscience and meditating on holy pictures, which have been significant in her life ever since. Williams, Elaine. Marina Warner. Editor Griffiths, Sian, Manchester University Press, pp. 259-67. 261 |
Textual Production | Marina Warner | MW
published her landmark study of the figure of the Virgin Mary
as a model for women: Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary. Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research. 194: 279, 284 |
Textual Production | Evelyn Underhill | EU
published with HeinemannThe Miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary, an anthology of translated fairytales of mediæval Catholicism
. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1 (31 March 1906): 389 The Bodleian Library
acquisition stamp is dated 9 November 1905. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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. ix |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | Despite the title, these poems do not present new themes, images, or structures. The most effective among them return to a theme always close to her heart: maternity. She celebrates female strength in two poems,... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Katharine Tynan | KT
allowed her fervent Catholicism to shine through in her depictions of conventual life and in her discussions of the Virgin Mary
: Mary, Mother of God, is the ideal set before all Catholic women... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Annie Steel | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | She dedicated to British Ladies interested in the bible these scholarly essays or notes. In a spirit of cultural enquiry she explains the use of camels as transport. In Jephthah's Daughter she argues confidently for... |
Occupation | Christina Rossetti | The second title uses the Latin version of the words which the Virgin Mary
spoke to the angel of the Annunciation, in English Behold the handmaid of the Lord!CR
sat also as model for... |
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
... |
Textual Production | Kate O'Brien | The title comes from a Mayday hymn to Mary
: the allusion to prayer is both nostalgic and ironical. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble. 78 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Jennings | A number of poems in this volume express sympathy with the losses and failures of humanity, or address the passage of time. Several concern religious observance: among these are two poems both bearing the title... |
Textual Production | Anna Brownell Jameson | ABJ
examined the life of the Virgin Mary
in Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts, the third volume of her series Sacred and Legendary Art. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press. 238 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Lucy Herbert | Chapter one deals with the advantages and benefits of prayer: the means which God gives us to attain to our last end; and to that Sanctity, and Perfection he has design'd us. Herbert, Lady Lucy. Several Methods and Practises of Devotion. The Widow of Jonh [sic] de Cock. 1 |
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