A Library of Tales. Volume 1 - CTS Onefifties. Heritage Series

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 orphans: 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).

ISBN:	9781784695453
Publisher:	Catholic Truth Society
Imprint:	Catholic Truth Society
Published date:	17 Oct 2017
DEWEY:	823.8
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	64
Weight:	-1g
Height:	160mm
Width:	110mm

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