Saint Augustine

EE 's dedication to Queen Anne asserts her awareness of being a female pioneer. Another part of her paratext, the preface, defends women's learning and defies both those who set up for Censurers and those...

At Liège on her twenty-second birthday, MW began an autobiography on the model of St Augustine 's Confessions, which takes her life to the age of fifteen only.

RW 's St. Augustine was published in the United States as part of a series of biographies sponsored by D. Appleton and Company .

SM published a novel entitled Brittle Joys (a quotation from Saint Augustine ), whose protagonist is a middle-aged woman glass-maker.

MAS published a work of scholarship, Biblical Fragments, in two volumes, with her name, and an epigraph in Latin from St Augustine about belief in God.

SB says that at about the age of seven, living with her sixty-year-old father in their isolated German manor house, she began writing a book. From early on I had the absolute if shadowy conviction...

In her religious poetry she was influenced, like other women of her circle, by St Augustine , Marsilio Ficino , Saint Bonaventure , and Greek patristics. Her secular and religious poems share certain attitudes...

Dorothy L. Latz notes that CH reflects no influence of the Jansenism which was current during her lifetime. Her theology stresses the incarnational, the divine immanence within human nature. This, whether she knew it...

EI situates her own writing among the devotional discourse current at the time. Among opening quotations from the Bible and prayer book, she copied a poem which G. Ellis copied in 1605, with only...

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...

Arriving in Israel just after a Jewish terrorist attack CM reports how she found the streets of Jerusalem full of tense, trigger-happy young British soldiers. Gershon Agronsky , editor of the Palestine Post,

One of her stories about the tender conscience she had as a child (about stealing an apple, but putting it back again) reminded her husband of St Augustine 's story in his autobiography of robbing...

Mary Howitt : An Autobiography appeared posthumously, edited by Howitt's younger (and only surviving) daughter, Margaret , with a title-page quotation from St Augustine and illustrations by her elder daughter, Anna Mary .

HA published with J. Springer of Berlin her doctoral dissertation, Der Liebesbegriff bei Augustin (in English Saint Augustine's Concept of Love). She dedicated it to Martin Heidegger .

After this HA made the shift towards more popular modes of writing, with an article on Augustine und Protestantismus for the newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung on 12 April 1930. Other important publications of this period include...