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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 Features | Henrietta Müller | The Yoga of Christ, or the Science of the Soul claims to illuminate, at least in part, the Truth, divine and living of Jesus
's words. These, it says, had for centuries lain hidden beneath... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | In it Jesus
comforts a mill-girl who is injured and dying after the terrible industrial accident. |
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 | Augusta Gregory | Quoting several of the street ballads at length, AG
argues that they are a means of recovering the suppressed history of Ireland, which having been forbidden in the national schools, has lifted up its... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | In another story for the same periodical, How June Found Massa Linkum, a slave child who has never heard of Christianity dies and is welcomed to heaven by both Jesus
and President Lincoln
(contradicting... |
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 |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Several stories in this collection focus on women's spiritual experience. The broken mirror in Phelps's The Lady of Shalott is that of a bedridden teenager whose drunken mother disabled her by throwing her downstairs. Jesus |
Textual Features | Shelagh Delaney | The first and longest story, also titled Sweetly Sings the Donkey, from the title of a children's song, takes place in a convalescent home run by nuns. Many of the characters are invalids, one... |
Textual Features | Lady Lucy Herbert | LLH
approaches her subject with reverence and urgency. The Holy Mass is the most sublime action that the Church militant can offer to God. It holds out to believers the daily opportunity to enrich ourselves... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | This book is narrated after her death by a woman named Mary who spent her life following the teachings of Christ
in ministering to the sick, the miserable, and the poor, Harde, Roxanne. “’God, or something like that’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Christian Spiritualism”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 15 , No. 348-70. 360 |
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 Features | Ménie Muriel Dowie | The first story in the volume, Wladislaw's Advent, explores decadent themes familiar to its original publication venue. It depicts an impoverished Polish artist living in the west end of Paris, and his encounter... |
Textual Features | Anna Kingsford | This first novel offers insights into AK
's early beliefs about relationships between men and women. In her eyes, God has allotted [women] greater trials and keener sufferings than men. The idea of woman as... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | St Agatha's is a rich urban parish lacking a minister; the supply or temporary preacher assigned to them, an old man in a poor rural parish, goes out in a blizzard to visit a sick... |
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