Books with author Margaret Connolly

Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God (also known as Fervor Amoris) is a late Middle English devotional prose text--a manual of guidance for the spiritual and ethical life directed at the lay population of both sexes, rather than at a monastic audience. It is a useful index of English popular spirituality since its circulation seems to have been extensive: it survives in sixteen manuscripts dating from the first half of the fifteenth century, and two early sixteenth-century printed editions. This first critical edition of the text is based on one manuscript, with variant readings cited from the other witnesses where necessary. The volume has a full critical apparatus and an introduction which discusses manuscript relations, matters of textual criticism, editorial technique, language, and dating.

Placed in a countryside house for orphaned children, Daisy grew up dreaming of that most wonderful of treasures, a mother of her very own. But bright and cheerful and hopeful as she was, Daisy was much too plain to catch the attention of even the kindest folks looking to adopt a child. Still, she prayed diligently, and tried her best to excel in everything she did. And then one day, Daisy's prayers were answered in a most unexpected way...

Daisy Stranger, lately of the Bide-a-While Home and School for Children, wants to bake a birthday cake for her new mother. But when WWII sugar rationing threatens to foil her plans, eight-year-old Daisy is determined to find a way. In the end, Daisy is the one who get a pleasant surprise when her mother comes home with exciting news for both of them.