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Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings
(Ideas of holiness continue to haunt us even in this secul...)
Ideas of holiness continue to haunt us even in this secular age. Too often banished from rational discourse, these ideas lurk like shadows in the imagination. In Virtuous Magic, a novelist and a poet describe the lives and legends of 45 holy women from the beginnings of Christianity until today, from Martha of Bethany and Mary Magdalene to Edith Stein, Dorothy Day, and the women religious and poverty workers martyred in El Salvador in 1980. The focus is on women in three areas: the arts of healing, the exercise of power, and the practice of mysticism. Playfully exploring the complex relationship between historical fact and spiritual truth, the authors employ poetry and fiction as well as historical narrative and the local records of cult centers to explore the many "meanings" of female sanctity.Intended as a book for browsing as well as for continuous reading, Virtuous Magic is for pilgrims, feminists, ordinary Christians, and anyone who has ever wondered about the strange magic exerted by saints throughout Christian history.Contents include: Veronica -- Bernadette of Lourdes -- Clare of Assisi -- Catherine of Sienna -- Katherine of Alexandria -- Empress Helena -- Brigit of Kildare -- Bridget of Sweden -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Wendreda -- Wilgefortis -- Rose of Lima -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Margaret Clitherow -- Josephine Butler -- Amanda Berry Smith -- Julian of Norwich -- Teresa of Avila -- Godiva of Coventry
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This narrow place: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : life, letters and politics 1930-1951 (Life and times)
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The Bay of Naples
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Poetry. Cased & lettered edition with additional holographic material (out of print). With an afterword by Lee Harwood. Selections from long out-of- print small press editions are published alongside previously uncollected pieces. Some new poems & the prose work 'La Pitié-Salpetrière' are published for the first time. "The lights of life glisten through these poems like butter on bread, words darting to their novel trysts. Read one every day: it will do you good.—J.H.Prynne "A pioneer in her generation, writing with a ferocity & devotion to uncertainty that gives her poems their torch-in-the-dark glow."—Fanny Howe
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This Narrow Place: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland Life, Letter and Politics, 1930-1951 (Pandora Press Life and Times)
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Wendy Mulford
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Her poetry has been viewed as "difficult to categorise" and as "multiand non-linear". Her early poetry had particularly strong feminist and Marxist elements, but latterly she has moved towards more personal themes. She wrote a biography of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland (besides providing an introduction to a 1989 reprint of Townsend Warner"s 1938 novel After The Death of Don Juan) and co-wrote with Sara Maitland a book on the subject of female saints.
Mulford also has used her experience teaching in Cambridge to write a number of critical essays about poetry, saying that women poets are still "too tied to the familiar".
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Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings
(Ideas of holiness continue to haunt us even in this secul...)
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and suddenly, supposing
(Poetry. Cased & lettered edition with additional holograp...)
- The A. B. C. of Writing and Other Poems.
- This narrow place: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : life, letters and politics 1930-1951 (Life and times)
- The Bay of Naples
- This Narrow Place: Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland Life, Letter and Politics, 1930-1951 (Pandora Press Life and Times)
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Virtuous Magic: Women Saints and Their Meanings
