Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989.
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Characters | Michèle Roberts | 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. Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989. 151-2 |
Cultural formation | Flora Tristan | When FT
embarked on her country-wide tour, she saw herself as undertaking a role with intense spiritual significance. She viewed herself as the female messiah or as the Saving Woman who brought life and salvation... |
Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | On 19 August 1834 she wrote to Douglas Cohen
expressing the hope that I may soon rest in the kingdom of God through the merits of our crucified Saviour Jesus
Christ and I beseech you... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Edna St Vincent Millay | First Fig (beginning My candle burns at both ends) had already been out for two years and had become Millay's signature text. Second Fig, like the volume's title, subverts a parable of Christ |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The pamphlet focuses on the idea that socialism is best understood as a religious creed and practice. Its first half, written by KBG
, employs a conversion narrative to express this perspective, while the second... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Augusta Gregory | This retelling of the Biblical story of Christ
's crucifixion, draws a parallel between the political situation in Ireland and that in Jerusalem at the time of Christ. Stevenson, Mary Lou Kohfeldt. Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance. Atheneum, 1985. 275 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Michèle Roberts | She began this book out of an impulse to think about where I came from, both genetically and socio-historically. Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007. 313 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Melvill | The collection opens with A Call to Come to Christ, which engages in sacred parody of Christopher Marlowe
's well-known Come Live With Me and Be My Love. Melvill imagines not a lover... |
Literary Setting | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Drawing on personal experience as a temperance worker, ESP
developed the story of a temperance-oriented minister who tries to live like Christ
in a fishing village where intemperance is rife. Embodying both religious and humanitarian... |
politics | Eva Gore-Booth | This involvement with the Rising aftermath was a highly disturbing first-hand experience of war Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 141 Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press, 1988. 141 |
Publishing | Katharine Tynan | One of KT
's better known religious works is Miracle Plays: Our Lord
's Coming and Childhood, which appeared in both London and Chicago in 1895. The plays cover The Annunciation, The Visitation... |
Publishing | Henry Handel Richardson | Jacob Schwartz
published at the Ulysses Press
two handsome limited editions by HHR
, to catch the 1931 Christmas market. Her stories Mary Christina and The Life of Peterle Lüthy appeared in an edition of... |
Textual Features | Annie Besant | From a theosophical perspective, AB
posits that nations exist not for themselves but as part of a movement towards that great Ideal of Nations as one Family, the Ideal of Universal Peace. Besant, Annie. Britain’s Place in the Great Plan. Theosophical Publishing House, 1921. 77 |
Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | This story delivers a terrific kick. It centres on an unnamed woman who grew up in an oppressively Christian
household, kept miserable by the suffering of Christ
, whom she calls the Hanged Man. She... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | St Agatha's is a rich urban parish lacking a minister; the supply or temporary preacher assigned to them, an old man in a poor rural parish, goes out in a blizzard to visit a sick... |
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