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The issues of education and the Fenians mesh together here, as hardships caused by bad education often draw male characters to the movement. The local Fenian head has been born and educated in Ireland...

This traces mystical beliefs and practice from the Bible, through the early days of Christianity, the medieval Catholic mysticism of England and various European countries, to seventeenth-century Protestant beliefs and practices, and finally to...

A similar document, Chiefest Reasons Why I Became a Catholick, cites nine reasons, beginning with Catholicism's antiquity and unity, and ending with [s]uch rare examples of virtue in both sexes such as I could...

Linked Lives features another orphan heroine, the well-born, highly romantic Mabel Forrester. The purpose of the novel is to show Mabel's progress towards embracing the Roman Catholic faith. Mabel, however, virtually shares the position of...

Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, and that it makes some criticism of the Church of England as well as the Catholic Church (but not of...

Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing...

MDF 's first poem here, Innocence in Bonds, A Dialogue dated 14 August 1780, in which the speakers are Truth and the Muse, refers to her previous publication, to martyrs (implicitly Protestants) who died at...

EU celebrates the life of this singer, poet, lawyer, and mystic as one marked by extraordinary (Catholic ) spiritual awareness, though his texts have not been officially adopted by the Church: Called, like Dante

The book does not measure up to the force and clarity of the opening. The suggestively-named Deletia Granville is a mysterious, neglected young girl at the outset, pensive and literary, loving sublime nature and her...

Commenting one last time on the state of Catholic schools, Laffan calls them highly destructive and immoral. The most dreadful thing of all is that the boys of the Priest's schools, of the Jesuits ...

Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism . When her father demands whether...

In this text, Warner traces the ways that the figure of the Virgin Mary has been used and changed over time in many cultures and for many reasons. She is critical of the Catholic Church

Like Mysticism, this book displays great erudition. EU draws on research into eleven (mainly Christian) religious denominations to synthesize the nature, principles, and chief expressions of the human response to and relationship with the...

Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and...

He intended his poem as a pindaric ode on a modern Catholic martyrdom. It describes the raging force of the sea, the courage of the dominant nun who heartens her companions to die well, and...