Silly novels by Catholic lady novelists, 1850-1890 (Fiction, England, Georgina Fullerton)

In the period between the theological controversies of the Oxford Movement and the spiritual dramas of the Decadence, Catholic fiction in England was generally undistinguished. The example of the most influential and widely read Catholic novelists of the time, Lady Georgina Fullerton and her French friend Mme. Augustus Craven, encouraged the production of badly written, poorly constructed and mawkishly sentimental pietistic novels by other female hands.