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    But words came halting forth, wanting Inuentions stay;    

    Inuention, Natures childe, fledde step-dame Studies blowes; 

    And others feet still seemde but strangers in my way.  

    Thus, great with childe to speak, and helplesse in my throwes, 

    Biting my trewand pen, beating myselfe for spite, 

                                 Fool, said my Muse to me, looke in thy heart, and write.

                                                                 -- Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella.

    News  

Dappled Things will be represented at the 2009 American Chesterton Society conference.

A book review of David Rooney's The Wine of Certitude: A Literary Biography of Ronald Knox will appear in an upcoming issue of the StAR.

De virtute cannibalismi will be published in the SS. Peter and Paul 2009 issue of Dappled Things.

Miss Donlon has been selected to edit the Ignatius Critical Edition of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

Miss Donlon is now a regular contributor to the StAR Ink Desk blog.

   Articles

Publishing for Papists (2009)

A Bite of Theology (2009)

The Abortion Story (2009)

At Home with Dickens (2009)

Hard Times for Great Books (2008)

No Plain "Jane" (2008)

Pen-Wielding Papist (2008)

Fragmentation? Nonsensical! (2008)

Pending Sparagmos (2008)

Dirty Linen of Literary Studies (2007)

Spirituality and Scholarship (2007)

Popery in Prose (2006)

    Fiction

De virtute cannibalismi (2009)

The Game of Sean McTeague (2008)

The Priest Hole (2007)

The Letters of Magdalen Montague (Serialized 2007-2008).

    Recent StAR Ink Desk Posts

“I’ve, like, got to get...” (July 1, 2009)

On Bad Art (June 15, 2009)

Lux aetérna (June 9, 2009)

Shades of the Tudors (May 19, 2009)

Status update! (May 11, 2009)

Redeeming Reading(s)? (May 8, 2009)

Book Reviews

The Wine of Certitude: A Literary Biography of Ronald Knox by David Rooney. Ignatius Press (2009). The Saint Austin Review.  

The Ignatius Critical Editions: Hamlet,The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Pride and Prejudice. Ignatius Press (2008).  Dappled Things: Mary Queen of Angels 2008.

Exiles by Ron Hansen.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008).  The Saint Austin Review: September/October 2008.

There Before Us: Religion Literature and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry edited by Roger Lundin.  Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (January 2, 2007).

Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age by Louis A. Markos. Sapientia Press (June 15, 2007).  The Saint Austin Review: September/October 2008.

Divining Divinity by Joseph Pearce (Summer 2008).  Dappled Things: SS. Peter and Paul 2008.