HOW NOVELISTS TREAT RELIGION.
“Religion is very tamely dealt with in fiction. Tt figures alternat ■ e’v as a tyrant, an imbecile, an excuse for interfering impertinently with one’s neighbours (see the penny novels about church-going and philanthropic ladies in small towns) ns the exclusive perquisite of some particular church, and as a mild intellectual diversion for not very intelligent young men. Far too seldom it is treated like any other effective and dynamic force in life: 100 seldom, also, are all its possibilities and varieties even superficially explored. After all. treated merely as material, it should be a rich and various theme. These ty-rant-parents, these inquisitorial parish ladies —even they must have their strange and storm-ridden inner life. . . . “The tiling wants doing better,” writes Rose Macaulay, the famous novelist in the “Guardian.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2595, 19 June 1923, Page 1
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132HOW NOVELISTS TREAT RELIGION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2595, 19 June 1923, Page 1
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