Caryll Houselander: That Divine Eccentric

Maisie Ward

Published by Sheed and Ward, 1962

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Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. 1st Edition - Very scarce HARDBACK (1962 - Sheed and Ward) Ex-library with usual marks. No marks noted in text. Binding is sound. . . . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * Introducing Caryll Houselander -- 1.) Background for Caryll -- 2.) Childhood -- 3.) School Days -- 4.) Out of the Church -- 5.) Love Affair -- 6.) New Beginnings -- 7.) Life at Evelyn Gardens, 1925-1935 -- 8.) Milborne Grove -- 9.) Extra-Sensory Perception -- 10.) The Phony War -- 11.) The Blitz -- 12.) After the War -- 13.) Caryll, Iris and Clare -- 14.) Caryllâ s Correspondence -- 15.) Guilt -- 16.) Art, Pain, and the Mystic -- 17.) Towards the End -- 18.) Through a Dark Night -- * Epilogue. . . . . . . . . Caryll Houselander (1901-1954) is most widely remembered for her books on devotional and theological subjects, which have given comfort and inspiration to countless readers throughout the world. Her spiritual powers were also used to the full in her corresponce and in her work with psychiatric patients. Her message may be summarised, We must learn to see Christ in everyone. . . . . . . . . . Mary Josephine *Maisie* Ward Sheed (4 January 1889 â " 28 January 1975), who published under the name Maisie Ward, was a descendant of one of Britain's distinguished Catholic families, and a writer, speaker, and publisher. Maisie's brother Leo Ward was co-founder of the publishing house Sheed and Ward; Maisie took his place when Leo left to become a priest. Ward was well-known for her best-selling authorized biography of friend G. K. Chesterton, written at the request of Chesterton's widow. Ward also wrote biographies of John Henry Newman, her own father, and Robert Browning; and in other areas, including New Testament scholarship, spirituality, and stories of saints and lesser notables, among them her friend, the writer and mystic Caryll Houselander. The amount and quality of what they wrote, spoke, translated and edited are a tribute to the contagious enthusiasm born of their felicitous pairing. Seller Inventory # 103087

Bibliographic Details

Title: Caryll Houselander: That Divine Eccentric

Publisher: Sheed and Ward

Publication Date: 1962

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: First/Early Edition Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition.