A Library of Tales - Vol 1 2017 (CTS Onefifties) - Softcover

Lea, Lady Herbert Of

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784695459 ISBN 13: 9781784695453

Publisher: Catholic Truth Society

Synopsis

Lady Herbert’s Wayside Tales are in the classic vein of “improving literature”. CTS published thirty volumes of them in 1899; some were still in print two decades later.The Two Sisters is a case-study in the perils Victorian life afforded to penniless women drink, and concubinage. The Story of a Conversion encourages servants not to let fear of losing their position prevent them from becoming Catholic; whilst Can Both Churches Be True? is a sort of Socratic dialogue about the problems of the Anglo-Catholic “branch theory” (whereby the Church of England is that part of the Church Catholic in England). It contains some good hits (“It’s making the truth just a matter of geography!”) but is hardly fiction in any strong sense.The other three stories are concerned with deathbed or near-deathbed conversions.It is easy to suppose all these stories were drawn from life, even the Italian local colour (Lady Herbert became Catholic whilst living in Palermo).

Edition details

• Publisher: Catholic Truth Society
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784695459
• ISBN 13: 9781784695453
• Binding: Paperback