"The Catholic Literary Revival that began in the late nineteenth century includes towering and well-known figures such as Chesterton, Greene, Tolkien, and Waugh, but its most numerous members were women whose literary contributions have been unjustly neglected and largely forgotten. In this important new series on Catholic women writers of the past two centuries, Johnson and Meszaros provide a welcome opportunity for us to gain a deeper appreciation of the contributions of Catholic women to the literary arts. I am truly grateful to these editors for rescuing these works from obscurity and bringing them back to our attention."—Jennifer A. Frey, University of South Carolina, and host of the literature, philosophy, and theology podcast
Sacred and Profane Love"The Catholic Women Writers series adds immeasurably to scholarship about women's writing, the novel, book history, and religious experience. To be modern is not inevitably to be godless or to write novels about a world abandoned by God. The novels reissued in this series widen our knowledge of the spiritual dimensions of women's lives and experience."—Allan Hepburn, McGill University
"This new series edited by Julia Meszaros and Bonnie Lander Johnson is both redress and invitation: redress in that there seems to be insufficient reason why writers of the Catholic Revival such as Maisie Ward, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Caryll Houselander, and a host of others have suffered an eclipse justified neither by their literary merits nor by the range of their fiction and non-fiction; invitation in that it is only by the re-publication of their work long out of print that a reader may come to see perspectives and thematics that are original and fresh and add to the contributions of the Catholic Revival's male stalwarts."—Cyril O'Regan, University of Notre Dame
"This is a wonderful publishing initiative. The novel allowed Catholic women writers space and freedom to present nuanced accounts of their world and their faith during this formative period for English letters."—Janet Soskice, Duke University
"This series fills a significant gap. Modern women writers of deeply formed Catholic conviction, despite the equal, and sometimes greater, subtlety and insight of their work, have often been overshadowed by male counterparts.. It is a great gift to have the works of Catholic Women Writers available for renewed study and enlightenment."—Rowan Williams
