{"product_id":"the-dry-wood-9780813234618","title":"The Dry Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the English-speaking world, the Catholic Literary Revival is typically associated with the work of G. K. Chesterton\/Hilaire Belloc, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene. But in fact the Revival's most numerous members were women. While some of these women remain well known⎯Muriel Spark, Antonia White, Flannery O'Connor, Dorothy Day - many have been almost entirely forgotten. They include: Enid Dinnis, Anna Hanson Dorsey, Alice Thomas Ellis, Eleanor Farjeon, Rumer Godden, Caroline Gordon, Clotilde Graves, Caryll Houselander, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Jane Lane, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Alice Meynell, Kathleen Raine, Pearl Mary Teresa Richards, Edith Sitwell, Gladys Bronwyn Stern, Josephine Ward, and Maisie Ward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are various reasons why each of these writers fell out of print: changes in the commercial publishing world after World War II, changes within the Church itself and in the English-speaking universities that redefined the literary canon in the last decades of the 20th century. Yet it remains puzzling that a body of writing so creative, so attuned to its historical moment, and so unique in its perspective on the human condition, should have fallen into obscurity for so long. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Catholic Women Writers series brings together the English-language prose works of Catholic women from the 19th and 20th centuries; work that is of interest to a broad range of readers. Each volume is printed with an accessible but scholarly introduction by theologians and literary specialists. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume in the series is Caryll Houselander's \u003cem\u003eThe Dry Wood\u003c\/em\u003e. Houselander is known primarily for her spiritual writings but she also wrote one novel, set in a post-war London Docklands parish. There a motley group of lost souls are mourning the death of their saintly priest and hoping for the miraculous healing of a vulnerable child whose gentleness in the face of suffering brings conversion to them all in surprising and unexpected ways. \u003cem\u003eThe Dry Wood\u003c\/em\u003e offers a vital contribution to the modern literary canon and a profound meditation on the purpose of human suffering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catholic University of America Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50913008779538,"sku":"9780813234618","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bcbc6b02-ad28-4bd2-82fd-f5b827da2cf4.jpg?v=1738779849","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-dry-wood-9780813234618","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}