The Company of Women (1980) is the story of five Catholic women in the early sixties who have met through a series of “working women’s“ retreats, and their devotion to one priest. Father Cyprian is a former “Paraclete” priest, who… Read More ›
Catholicism in literature
Analysis of Peter Bacho’s Cebu
Peter Bacho was born in Seattle in 1950, the son of immigrants from Cebu, the Philippines. His first novel, Cebu, won the 1992 American Book Award. Cebu is a quintessentially Filipino-American novel that explores culture clash, family history, identity, and… Read More ›
Analysis of George Moore’s Evelyn Innes
George Moore’s melodramatic romance novel Evelyn Innes is replete with characters based on real people. The author fashioned Evelyn’s father after the French-born musician Arnold Dolmetsch (1858–1940), who studied Renaissance music and the instruments that produced it in London. A… Read More ›
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