Madam Belloc (Bessie Rayner Parkes). The Flowing Tide. First Edition. London, Sands & Co., 1900. 13 x 18 cm, xi, 298 pages. Original red cloth with gilt title on spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Very good condition. Spine faded and parts of boards are discoloured (see images). Corners and spine bumped and rubbed. Edges age darkened. Text block bright and clean. Some tanning, mainly to endpapers.

Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc (1829 – 1925) was one of the most prominent English feminists and campaigners for women’s rights in Victorian times and also a poet, essayist and journalist. Bessie Rayner Parkes published fourteen books: poetry, essays, biography, memoirs, travel, and literature for children and adolescents, as well as a very effective booklet on women’s rights and dozens of articles. A lot of her literary work was well received during her lifetime and her poetry was admired by Ruskin and Longfellow.
This book is, according to the author; ‘attempting a record of the religious revival of the Nineteenth Century. It contains the following chapters: The flowing tide / In the thirties / In the forties / In the fifties / in the sixties / Mother Margaret / Ireland in the sixties / The Irish in America / Catholicism in France / Ozanam’s legacy / Madame Swetchine / The three great cardinals / The literature of the Catholic revival / The influence of Augustus Welby Pugin / Catholic Socialism / The little sisters of the poor / Anglo-Catholic Beginnings / The incoming tide.

• Keywords: Classical & Old Literature · History of Ireland · Ireland · Literature · Religion
• Language: English
• First edition
• Inventory Number: 100339AB

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