The poems in A Quickening Star are brought into increasingly vivid focus line-by-line, each line like a frame in a well-crafted film opening sequence. This loaded narrative quality of Sue Morgan's work is particularly evident in the short but harrowing 'Forced Entry', which begins with "The click-tick/ of a cockroach on a dark ceiling" and escalates by the tenth line to "he knows/ a hundred ways to harm without marking". Whether tackling abuse, mental health or romance, Sue Morgan's poems transport you to a space where curtains are parting and a quiet music is creeping in. Born in Lancashire in 1958, Sue Morgan spent much of her childhood in South Africa, working abroad for many years as a teacher, before marrying and moving to Northern Ireland where she still lives. She counts as her mentors Ciaran Carson, Sinead Morrissey and Leontia Flynn who have all been influential in her development as a poet. Her submission Let Red Hibiscus Fall won the Venture Pamphlet Award in 2013 and she was runner up in the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing in 2015.
In a tragic accident, Josephine Miller loses her parents. Eva, a young wolf loses her parents in that same accident. Jo struggles with her grief until she finally learns the truth of the accident. Eva struggles also but learns she has to become a spiritual guide to humans, first and foremost Jo. Each have the guidance of their new found loves and their departed parents. The two worlds, human and animal connect and final acceptance and discovery of self transpire.
In its specially-commissioned fourteen chapters, this important book discusses an impressively wide range of issues around the theme of male spirituality in the nineteenth century, drawing from history, cultural studies, art history and literary criticism. Topics explored include: ideological and iconographical representations of masculinity across the major Christian denominations; militarism and hymnody; male homosexuality and homoeroticism. The book is not afraid to explore controversial areas, nor to go beyond the generally acknowledged 'canon' of prescribers of gender identity: it includes, for example, leading nonconformist figures like William Booth and Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and early gay writers like John Addington Symonds.
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EIN UNMORALISCHES ANGEBOT von MORGAN, SARAH "Sie werden nicht zurückfliegen, Miss Kingston." Schockiert starrt Amy den attraktiven Scheich Zakour Al-Farisi an. Unerhört! Was glaubt er, wer er ist! Doch statt auf ihren Protest zu reagieren, küsst Zakour sie stürmisch und macht ihr ein unmoralisches Angebot ... IM PALAST DES PRINZEN von SWIFT, SUE Cami ist außer sich: Rayhan, Prinz von Adnan und ihr Noch-Mann hat sie mit einer List in seinen sagenumwobenen Palast geholt. Er will die Scheidung verhindern! Cami jedoch hat nicht vor, Rayhan erneut zu erliegen. Allerdings scheint ihr Herz ganz anderer Meinung zu sein ... 1001 VERSUCHUNG von WEST, ANNIE Wie kann ich die schüchterne Rosalie Winters in die sinnlichen Freuden aus 1001 Nacht entführen? fragt sich Wüstenprinz Arik. Denn die schöne Malerin, der er gestattet hat, ihn zu porträtieren, ist die pure Versuchung! Aber Nähe weicht sie aus. Wovor hat sie bloß Angst?
The founder and president of the Mothers' Union, one of the first and largest women's organisations, Mary Sumner (1828-1921) was an influential educator and a force to be reckoned with in the Church of England of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the analytical tools of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Sue Anderson-Faithful locates Mary Sumner's life and thought against social and religious networks in which she was restricted by gender yet privileged by class and proximity to distinguished individuals. This dichotomy is key to understanding the achievements of a woman who both replicated and shaped Victorian attitudes to women's roles in society. To Mary Sumner mission and education meant the propagation of religious knowledge through progressive pedagogy. Her activism was intended to promote social reform at home and nurture the growth of the British Empire with mothers wielding their political power as educators of future citizens. The symbiotic relationship between Church and State concentrated power in the hands of a ruling class with which Mary Sumner identified and which she supported. In her view the legitimacy of national and imperial rule was intertwined with the moral force of Anglicanism. SueAnderson-Faithful interprets Mary Sumner's lifelong work in the light of these relationships, contrasting her assertion of personal agency and an empowering discourse of motherhood with her simultaneous reinforcement of patriarchy and class privilege.
This collection of new essays examines the pervasive influence of religion upon the lives and strategies of late eighteenth and nineteenth century women activists. The book discusses a wide range of issues from female education to lesbian passion, and the authors demonstrate through detailed case-studies, women's skilful negotiation of the boundaries between personal religious beliefs, moral attitudes and social action.
This study examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the 18th century prior to the French Revolution. It shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for contestation over the meaning of freedom.
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