Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
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Anthologization | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes
included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH
to Henry Turberville
on choosing the Anglican
over... |
Birth | Lady Lucy Herbert | LLH
was born at the fortified stronghold of Powis Castle in Montgomeryshire, the youngest but one of a large and distinguished Roman Catholic
family. Henrietta Tayler
gives the year of her birth as 1668... |
Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | A Roman Catholic
widow feels after the death of her weak-natured husband that she has been unfaithful to him in her soul. She therefore declines the hand of a deserving man who has long loved... |
Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | Laurentia is another of Fullerton's historical novels, in this case written with the intent of providing a picture of the Church of Japan in the sixteenth century, and to illustrate in the shape of a... |
Characters | Marie Belloc Lowndes | With characters from a multiplicity of countries, the novel is set in London and an English country house. The Russian Paul Feyghine wastes the best years of his life for love of an unworthy Spanish... |
Characters | Roma White | This story is oddly poised between admiration for the free-spirited and bohemian, respect for social convention, sympathy with those who despise social convention, and a strong Christian moral spirituality in which the choice between good... |
Characters | Jennifer Johnston | |
Characters | Willa Cather | Her heroine, Myra Driscoll, is a Roman Catholic
who sets her religion aside and elopes to marry a Protestant, Oswald Henshawe, bringing down on herself family disapproval and disinheritance. Her brave insistence on marrying for... |
Characters | John Oliver Hobbes | Time passes, and Sophy is happily married and then widowed, while Jim becomes a Nonconformist minister. The Firmalden siblings become intimate with an aristocratic Roman Catholic
couple, Lord Basil and Lady Tessa Marlesford. Struggle over... |
Characters | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College
who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with... |
Characters | Antonia Fraser | The wedding in the novel is to unite British royalty (in the person of Princess Amy) to a Roman Catholic
spouse (in the person of Prince Ferdinand), for the first time since the Stuarts. Jemima... |
Characters | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston
) with... |
Cultural formation | Florence Marryat | She was born into the English middle class (although her mother was Scottish, her maternal grandfather and her father served much abroad, and her paternal grandmother was American of German descent). Presumably white, she became... |
Cultural formation | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
was an Irishwoman born (on both sides) into the Dublin theatre world, though her father had gentry origins. Her mother was Protestant
, and her father Catholic
. AOK
says that she never experienced... |
Cultural formation | Anna Maria Hall | Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican
Church. AMH
encountered many practising Catholic
s while living with her maternal step-grandfather
, who often entertained... |
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