Thomas à Kempis

Over the course of her life, RM 's religious practices ranged between Anglican and Anglo-agnostic. She was initially given instruction in the Anglican faith by her mother. As an early adolescent (like George Eliot 's...

From 1890 to about 1896, from a few years before her mother 's illness until a few years after her death, Ottoline was absorbed by Thomas à Kempis 's The Imitation of Christ, and...

Lady Sharington employed a governess named Hamblyn for her daughters, who was a niece of her husband. Mrs Hamblyn took great pains with the character and moral training of her charges, and taught Grace some...

These short sentences sounding sometimes like prayer and sometimes like meditation, addressing Christ as spouse, are modelled on the psalms. KP also made much use of Richard Whitford 's version of the third book of...

Escreet observes that The Autobiography of a Slander is EL 's only book to have an unhappy ending. In fact, though, while the central characters are left dead and miserable respectively, Lyall hints at...

In the middle or fourth stage, headed with Robert Browning 's Oh, the little more, and how much it is! the slander sallies forth, by letter, into the wider world, and implicitly threatens Zaluski's...

In this text of religious counsel, MBF lists her topics as sub-headings uncharacteristic of an actual letter. She translates her correspondent's approaching journey into spiritual terms: I see you as a ship just launching into...

The narrator of The Mill on the Floss is not unproblematically masculine, but writes from time to time as a woman. The novel begins with an unusually intense and nuanced study of childhood. Maggie Tulliver...

This letter expounds her pedagogical principles and practice. Elsewhere she writes on matters of church administration and business, on tricky theological issues like the real presence in the sacrament, on religious virtues like zeal or...