Besant, Annie. Britain’s Place in the Great Plan. Theosophical Publishing House.
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Textual Production | Rose Allatini | It is titled from a phrase in the book of Isaiah which is read by Christians as a prophecy of the persecutions awaiting the Messiah, or Jesus
Christ. Its dedication, To You Who Made Me... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Bathurst | The book opens with several stages of preliminary matter. In an opening epistle to five individual Friends, EB
says she has not acted out of ambition to be printed or to be popular, but in... |
Textual Features | Annie Besant | From a theosophical perspective, AB
posits that nations exist not for themselves but as part of a movement towards that great Ideal of Nations as one Family, the Ideal of Universal Peace. Besant, Annie. Britain’s Place in the Great Plan. Theosophical Publishing House. 77 |
Textual Production | Annie Besant | Thomas Scott
published AB
's sceptical pamphlet, On the Deity of Jesus
of Nazareth, which contributed to the ending of her marriage. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 55 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. |
Textual Production | Annie Besant | This pamphlet's original working title was What think ye of Christ? Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 55 Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press. 56 |
Textual Features | L. S. Bevington | Some poems here are again strongly anti-religious. LSB
excoriates religious institutions in In and Out of Church, mocking: Heaven to let—to paying lodger; Ah, you canting devil-dodger, Damn not us who spurn your... |
Textual Features | Ada Cambridge | The first section of Echoes, which comprises nearly ninety percent of the book, includes several poems that describe personal and historical events of importance to the author with fervently religious language. Five of these... |
Textual Features | Leonora Carrington | The narrative is told in the first person to you, LC
's interlocutor Jeanne Megnen
, and divided into five journal or diary entries dated 23-27 August 1943. Across those entries LC
recounts her... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Carter | Having opened with a graceful rhetorical gesture towards womanly modesty and courtesy, EC
proceeds to cast scorn on her antagonist's capacity and annihilate his arguments. The tone, as befits a polemic, is a good deal... |
Textual Production | Caroline Clive | Caroline Meysey-Wigley
(later CC
), as Paul Ferrol, published Essays on the Human Intellect, as constructed by God, and on Our Saviour
, considered in His Character of Man. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Features | Wendy Cope | Cope makes free with the category Tumps (typically useless male poets), yet her poems to or about men are typically loving in tone: for her father, her husband, George Herbert
(who is Dear George although... |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | |
Textual Production | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | |
Textual Features | Dinah Mulock Craik | It takes on anti-semitic prejudice, making the point that Jesus Christ
was a Jewish boy, even while Dinah Mulock also asserts that the days of religious persecution are over. Craik, Dinah Mulock. The Unkind Word and Other Stories. Hurst and Blackett. 188 |
Textual Features | Victoria Cross | In a preface to a later edition of Anna Lombard, VC
wrote: I endeavoured to draw in Gerald Ethridge a character whose actions should be in accordance with the principles laid down by Christ |
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