Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Hannah Lynch | Blackwood's Magazine introduced the serialization of this book with a half-promise of its being a clef: It is, we believe, the faithful narrative of an actual experience, the work of a powerful writer whose identity... |
| Literary responses | Willa Cather | Michael Williams
in The Commonweal called this book a wonderful demonstration of the artist's power, in that Cather had steeped her story in Roman Catholic
spirituality as no Catholic American writer could have done. |
| Literary responses | Julia Kavanagh | H. F. Chorley
reviewed it in the Athenæum, noting that, even though from the earliest announcement of her plan we were convinced that Madeleine would get her hospital built, there was no avoiding being... |
| Literary responses | George Douglas | |
| Literary responses | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin | Reviewer Camille-Yvette Welsch
read this poem as an allegory of the uneasy bonds joining pagan with Christian, Catholic
with Protestant
. Welsch, Camille-Yvette. “New Irish poets”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. xx , No. 9, June 2003, pp. 17-18. 18 |
| Literary responses | Monica Furlong | Ruth McCurry
in the Times Literary Supplement found this biography at once accurate and sympathetic. Saint Thérèse, said McCurry, could have been shown as a victim either of nineteenth-century provincial French society, or of an... |
| Literary responses | John Oliver Hobbes | In 1935 JOH
merited a chapter in Isabel Constance Clarke
's Six Portraits, a collection of essays on major women writers. Clarke argued that she was the pioneer of the Catholic novelist, Clarke, Isabel Constance. Six Portraits. Books for Libraries Press, 1967. 233 |
| Literary responses | Roxburghe Lothian | The book aroused the antagonism of Catholic
reviewers, not because of its author's gender (which remained cloaked behind her pseudonym) but because of its attitudes. 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, 1990. |
| Literary responses | Georgiana Chatterton | The book had the honour of being reviewed for the Athenæum by Sydney Morgan
. The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. |
| Literary Setting | Frances Brooke | This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB
drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic... |
| Literary Setting | Anna Kingsford | The action of Beatrice takes place in Rome between 303 and 305 A.D.. The novel is a historical fictionalisation of the Christian persecutions of the Diocletian
era, using the martyrdom story of the eponymous heroine... |
| Literary Setting | E. Nesbit | The short-story volume Something Wrong includes Man-Size in Marble, a ghost story set around the actual Brenzett Church in Romney Marsh. The Brenzett village website (in 2011) says that the church is worth... |
| Literary Setting | Sarah Pearson | First the son, Lord Bellton, gives the medallion to his mistress before leaving on the Grand Tour, but it is thrown away and makes another picaresque progress through the hands of a French military commander... |
| Literary Setting | Monica Furlong | This short novel, a blend of fairytale, adventure story, didacticism, the occult, and a study of an orphan finding herself, is set in the seventh century in the kingdom of Dalriada (now the Isle of... |
| Literary Setting | Margaret Holford | The Conspirator is historical, dealing with Sir Everard Digby
's participation in the Gunpowder Plot of 5 November 1605, largely from the point of view of his wife. Mary, Lady Digby
, intensely sensitive and... |
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