Father John; or, Cromwell in Ireland
Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1842
Publisher: Whittaker
Pages no: 477
Edition language: English
As I wrote in the synopsis, this is a historical novel, with heavy pro-Protestant evangelism, hence the title. Father John, a conscience-wracked priest of the Roman Catholic church, is in fact only a secondary character in a novel that indulges in many of the conventions of the Gothic Romance (hidde...