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Sara Hennell : Christianity and Infidelity

'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

Sara Sophia Hennell : Thoughts in Aid of Faith

'[Miss Hennell's] is a wonderful book for beauty; - a really wonderful poem, it seems to me: but O dear! so unsound in the latter part! - so weak in its lapse into metaphysics, after an apparent abjuring of them.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

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