Saint Mary Magdalen

According to Maitland, she began the process of conversion to Catholicism after three nocturnal visitations from an apparition that appeared to her in the form of St Mary Magdalen . She was confirmed...

Her early work and the passages she copied into her mother's commonplace-book show the influence of Tennyson and Wordsworth ; she also acknowledged the impact of Gray and Crabbe , and wrote several poems inspired...

In what some consider her most ambitious religious work, she continues here her meditations on the female characters of the Bible. The text envisions the moment at which Eve , the Virgin Mary ...

Scenes and Hymns of Life includes Prisoners' Evening Service, which imagines the last days of two prisoners awaiting execution during the French Revolution, and affectingly described by Helen Maria Williams . Even...

The volume opens with the title piece, River Reeds, a simple poem about nature which compares the gifts of the poet to a river reed: however lowly and mean, both offer melodies tender and...

The title piece, in Spenserian stanzas with an ababccdcc rhyme scheme, depicts Mary Magdalene being cajoled by Salome to seize the day. Mary, the poem's major speaker,                 weep[s] and moan[s]
  For wantonness of feasts and...

The collection consists of seventeen poems, the longest of which is the offending Madeleine in Church, a 200-line dramatic monologue spoken in confessional mode by a woman kneeling in a dark corner of a...

This is the contentious core of the novel: that the seducer's sin of seduction is far graver than that of an innocent girl who lets herself be seduced. Ruth's faults are called venial errors...

One poem written by HW as an undergraduate and never published in her lifetime relates the events of the crucifixion and its immediate aftermath from the point of view of Mary Magdalen : So Joseph...

This novel reflects both MR 's efforts to remove her own self from her writing, and the freedom and power she felt when she allowed herself, after all, to be present there again. In...

As a child Mary Magdalene climbs trees and sometimes sings pagan songs. At fifteen, after her mother dies, she runs away from home with its prospect of betrothal and marriage, only to be raped on...

This is war poetry which looks at the home front, like T. S. Eliot 's Four Quartets and Ezra Pound 's Pisan Cantos. It has been classified as epic.London under the bombing...

Elizabeth Cary Falkland wrote verse lives of Mary Magdalen , Saint Agnes , and St Elizabeth of Portugal , and many poems about the Virgin Mary and various saints.

MR 's third novel, The Wild Girl, concerns the biblical Mary Magdalene or Magdalen , whose portrayal as religious and sexually active and unmarried was of course controversial.

One of these poems presents Mary Magdalene as the archetypal fallen woman, now ransomed and redeemed from guilt!