Knights was the second man to propose to MF
, and she was by then, in tune with the social compulsions of the day, anxious to be married. As she became more successful in her...
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...