Mary, the mother of Jesus

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...

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 ...

FAS brackets her extremely touching story between two overt comparisons of Indian with British culture, not to the latter's advantage. No matter how barbarous the marriage customs of India, FAS writes that Uma confronts...

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 . Even...

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. Devotion to Mary flourished among the children. MW remained...

Here, she learned the practices of examining her conscience and meditating on holy pictures, which have been significant in her life ever since. At both her convent schools devotion to the Virgin Mary was...

In a move that reflected her turn to Catholicism , MAD published a devotional volume, Sanctuary, dedicated to MaryThe Mother of Jesus and featuring a preface by Charles Galton , a Jesuit priest.