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Elizabeth of the Trinity

Elizabeth of the Trinity

Marian T. Murphy

Gracewing
2011
pokkari
'A VIBRANT PROPHET OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD' is how Pope John Paul IIdescribed Elizabeth of the Trinity. In this compelling book, we enter deeplyinto her life and spirituality and see just how relevant Elizabeth's message is for those of us living in today's highly secularised society.Attractive, lively, ardent, talented, yet with her share of faults, Elizabethshows that when we give ourselves to God, he builds on our nature andtransforms us gradually into himself. She challenges us to follow her exampleand respond to God's universal call to holiness, while reawakening us to theimmense depth and beauty of the normal channels of God's grace: prayer andthe sacraments.The author shows how Elizabeth offers a compelling witness of holiness tothe Church of today for 'Her life is what God wills every life to be'.Cardinal Albert de Courtray, former Bishop of Dijon, expressed it succinctly: "It is easy to see how Elizabeth's message is addressed to all Christians.She never for one moment entertained the idea that her calling as aCarmelite conferred some sort of spiritual superiority on her. ForChristian spiritual life is founded upon faith, baptism and becoming evermore like Jesus Christ; so that whatever the Christian may be, whateverhis or her moral, psychological or social condition, he or she is alwaysthat 'new humanity' in which Christ will come again to renew all hismystery.""This is a truly remarkable book. It is written in a clear, simple and engaging style by an author who shares with us her deep love of Elizabeth of the Trinity and her profound grasp of Elizabeth's spirituality, centred on the indwelling presence of God in every baptised person. The book offers us deep insights into the development of Elizabeth's inner life and the major themes in her writings, as seen through the eyes of someone who speaks from first-hand experience and with authority about the life of a Carmelite nun." James McCaffrey, O.C.D. (Editor of Mount Carmel magazine)Sr Marian Teresa Murphy, a Carmelite of St Joseph's Monastery, Liverpool, England completed her MA dissertation on Elizabeth of the Trinity with distinction.She is the author of Always Believe in Love - Selected Spiritual Writings of Elizabeth of theTrinity. An engaging speaker, she has made several CDs on various aspects of Elizabeth's life and spirituality, which form the basis of this inspiring book.
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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I

Susan Bassnett

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
1992
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Elizabeth I is probably the most famous English woman ever to have lived. She has been celebrated as a great stateswoman, during whose reign England acquired some degree of security in the troubled European arena and at the same time began to lay the foundations for its future empire. She presided over a country undergoing a cultural renaissance previously unimagined. By the time of her death at the age of seventy in 1603, she was being heralded as rival to the Virgin Mary, as a second Queen of Earth and Heaven, as a woman more than mortal women. She has provided subject-matter for innumerable books: seventy biographies have appeared since 1890 and it is impossible to list the enormous number of historical novels based on some part of her life.However, among the many books written about Elizabeth I there is none like this one: Bassnett looks at the life and achievements of Elizabeth from a twentieth-century feminist perspective and considers her as writer, politician, scholar and woman. As a result she succeeds in presenting a more rounded portrait of a figure who has fascinated successive generations but whose private and public life has frequently been the subject of fantasy and speculation.
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Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Selected Writings, Volume I

Elizabeth Oakes Smith: Selected Writings, Volume I

Timothy H. Scherman

MERCER UNIVERSITY PRESS
2023
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Timothy H. Scherman re-introduces modern readers to a nineteenth-century woman writer and political activist whose disappearance from literary history would seem impossible in light of the volume of her published writing and the visceral responses she elicited from readers in her own day. Collecting samples of her work in every genre--personal letters, short fiction, essays, lectures, editorial, memoir, excerpts from several novels and one of her plays--Scherman captures the full creative range of one of the earliest woman professionals in the literary field in three conveniently arranged volumes. Scherman's most intriguing admission in his editor's introduction constitutes the difference between this series and others like it in the recent recovery of women writers of Oakes Smith's era. While grounding the writer's life and work in the broad contours of U.S. and trans-Atlantic literary culture and suggesting thematic and political relations among Oakes Smith's variety of writings, these volumes advertise a still broadly open field of investigation, where even basic information that might lead to clearer understanding of Oakes Smith's success and latter-day disappearance await the scholar, the graduate student, or the amateur historian with access to a growing array of electronic archives at their fingertips, now including an expanded Oakes Smith website and EOS Log.
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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I

Susan Bassnett

Berg Publishers
1992
nidottu
Elizabeth I is probably the most famous English woman ever to have lived. She has been celebrated as a great stateswoman, during whose reign England acquired some degree of security in the troubled European arena and at the same time began to lay the foundations for its future empire. She presided over a country undergoing a cultural renaissance previously unimagined. By the time of her death at the age of seventy in 1603, she was being heralded as rival to the Virgin Mary, as a second Queen of Earth and Heaven, as a woman more than mortal women. She has provided subject-matter for innumerable books: seventy biographies have appeared since 1890 and it is impossible to list the enormous number of historical novels based on some part of her life.However, among the many books written about Elizabeth I there is none like this one: Bassnett looks at the life and achievements of Elizabeth from a twentieth-century feminist perspective and considers her as writer, politician, scholar and woman. As a result she succeeds in presenting a more rounded portrait of a figure who has fascinated successive generations but whose private and public life has frequently been the subject of fantasy and speculation.
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Elizabeth Gets Her Wings

Elizabeth Gets Her Wings

Janet Stobie

Child's Play Productions
2017
nidottu
Elizabeth Gets Her Wings by Janet Stobie is a Christmas picture book for children ages 3-8. Energetic, enthusiastic Elizabeth doesn't want to wait another three years to get her wings. "Pick me," she cries when God asks for a helper. Maybe she can earn her wings early. The task sounds easy. Will Elizabeth be successful? Travel with Elizabeth as she seeks volunteers for a mysterious journey. Janet Stobie gives a new perspective to the traditional story of the three kings' visit in Bethlehem. Olivia Phillips has captured the spirit of Elizabeth's adventure in her delightful watercolor illustrations. You will enjoy reading "Elizabeth Gets Her Wings" with your child. Like "Spectacular Stella" and "Can I Hold Him, Janet Stobie's new book, "Elizabeth Gets Her Wings" is an excellent Christmas resource for teachers and clergy.
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Elizabeth: Learning to Dress Myself from the Inside Out

Elizabeth: Learning to Dress Myself from the Inside Out

Mary E. Moloney

Heart Whisperings
2012
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The arduous path of becoming woman. Elizabeth-Learning to Dress Myself from the Inside Out narrates Mary Elizabeth Moloney's search for authentic womanhood. Crippled by her mother's intent to dress her in her own image, by her years in the convent, and later in a marriage, she sought help. Through dream-work with a wise Jungian analyst, she learned to step back from her doll-like fa ade, to take responsibility for her unlived years, to recognize and deal with her addictive personality, and to explore the richness of her gift as woman and as writer.
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Elizabeth's Hope

Elizabeth's Hope

Betty Bolte

Betty Bolte
2018
pokkari
Introducing the lives, loves, and dangerous times of the men and women in the A More Perfect Union historical romance series This prequel novella takes place when Charles Town, South Carolina, is about to face the British enemy during the American Revolution.CAUGHT BETWEEN DUTY AND LOVEJoining the revolutionary army was the honorable thing to do--but Jedediah Thomson hadn't realized how long he'd be away from the lovely, spirited Miss Elizabeth Sullivan. They'd only begun their courtship when the occupation of Charles Town, South Carolina, trapped her in the city, making it dangerous to get to her.Elizabeth Sullivan feared for her brothers, fighting for American freedom; for her father, pretending to be a loyalist; for family and friends, caught between beliefs; and most of all for Jedediah, the man she loves, who was doing his duty. She cherished every moment they had together, knowing how swiftly it could be taken away.And that made her willing to risk everything to claim a piece of him forever....
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Elizabeth and the Potato Dolly

Elizabeth and the Potato Dolly

Barbara Sorensen Fallick

Gold Street Publishers
2017
nidottu
Elizabeth and the Potato Dolly is a nostalgic look at yesteryear too precious to sweep into the dustbin of history. It is sure to charm all lovers of Americana from ages three to one hundred and three. Unique among pioneer stories with its reenactment at a living history museum, the artfully done photographs bring authenticity to the story.This book was made beautiful that it might become n heirloom in your family as it is in ours. It is the story of a lost time where a five and a half year old girl tells a story handed down from her grandmother to her mother to her rural, one-room school house. The origins of Elizabeth and the Potato Dolly could have immigrated with pioneers from England settling the west or it could go come to America from settlers before the American Revolution from Germany or Holland. Elizabeth is sent to the root cellar to fetch potatoes for her Pappa's dinner. When she doesn't return promptly, her mother repeatedly calls but "Elizabeth does not answer and Elizabeth does not come." This parallelism tickles young readers as does Mama's elongated calling, "Eliiiiii-zabeth." The children become intrigued to know what has become of Elizabeth.
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Elizabeth's Campaign (Esprios Classics)

Elizabeth's Campaign (Esprios Classics)

Humphry Ward

Blurb
2025
pokkari
Mary Augusta Ward, n e Arnold, (1851-1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs. Humphry Ward. She began her career writing articles for magazines while working on a book for children that was published in 1881 under the title Milly and Olly. Her novels contained strong religious subject matter relevant to Victorian values she herself practised. Her popularity spread beyond Great Britain to the United States. According to the New York Times, her book Lady Rose's Daughter was the bestselling novel in the United States in 1903 as was The Marriage of William Ashe in 1905. Her most popular novel by far was the religious "novel with a purpose" Robert Elsmere, which portrayed the religious crisis of a young pastor and his family.
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Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Elizabeth Bowen in Context

Cambridge University Press
2026
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This book provides innovative, up-to-date essays about Elizabeth Bowen's fiction. It integrates the latest thinking about her engagement, stances, and knowledge of twentieth-century literary movements. Elizabeth Bowen often remarked that she grew up with the twentieth century. Indeed, her writings are coterminous with the technological, social, and cultural developments of modernity. Her novels and short stories, like her essays, register changes in architecture, visual art, soundscapes, the aesthetics and technique of fiction, attitudes towards sex and greater social freedom for women, and the long repercussions of warfare across the twentieth century. Bowen's writing reflects a deep engagement with other authors, whether they were her antecedents – Jane Austen, Marcel Proust, and D. H. Lawrence, among others – or her contemporaries, such as Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, and Eudora Welty. Her fiction and essays are a barometer of the literary, political, social, and cultural contexts in which she lived and wrote.
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Elizabeth City State Normal School Bulletin and Announcements; 1930-1932

Elizabeth City State Normal School Bulletin and Announcements; 1930-1932

Elizabeth City State Normal School

Hassell Street Press
2021
nidottu
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface.We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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