The Catholic University of America Press is pleased to continue to
present new volumes in our Catholic Women Writers series, which
will shed new light on prose work of Catholic women writers from
the 19th and 20th centuries. Josephine Ward is one of Catholicism's
greatest literary treasures and a foremost contributor to English
literary history—except that she has all but completely fallen
from the historical record. She spent her life in close
companionship with the most active minds working in the late 19th
century to restore to the Catholic Church in England the
intellectual, sacramental and theological integrity it had once
enjoyed before three hundred years of persecution. All seven of her
novels are out of print, despite their once high acclaim in the fin
de siècle literary world. First published in 1899, One Poor
Scruple follows the recusant Riversdale family who have survived
the long penal years by observing a quiet aristocratic life of
sport and agriculture, never stepping into the public sphere from
which Catholics in Britain had been barred for so long. But at the
start of the twentieth century, a new generation has emerged. The
novel's younger characters are now legally able to go to Oxford and
Cambridge and to enter the public life of letters. Emboldened by
the confident work of John Henry Newman, this younger generation of
Catholics are nonetheless cautioned not to trust the Protestant
establishment. One Poor Scruple is a coming-of-age story in which
the new generation of more worldly Catholics search for love,
friendship and intellectual emancipation in the decadent social
world of Edwardian London. Decades before Evelyn Waugh examined in
Brideshead Revisitedthe human struggle to distinguish between true
and false beauty, Ward's novel examined the challenge of discerning
between conflicting desires and of living a life that is as
truthful and good as it is beautiful.
General
Imprint: |
The Catholic University of America Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Catholic Women Writers |
Release date: |
August 2023 |
Authors: |
Josephine Ward
• Julia Meszaros
• Bonnie Lander Johnson
|
Dimensions: |
216 x 140mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
456 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8132-3602-5 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-8132-3602-9 |
Barcode: |
9780813236025 |
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