Such Is My Beloved (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Morley Callaghan
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Social commentary/allegory
- Time of Work: The 1930’s
- Setting: Toronto, Canada
- Principal Characters: Father Stephen Dowling, Veronica (Ronnie) Olsen, Catherine (Midge) Bourassa, James Robison, Charlie Stewart, Bishop Foley, Lou Wilenski, Henry C. Baer
- Genres: Long fiction, Naturalistic literature
- Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Sin or Original sin, Prostitution or prostitutes, 1930’s, Christianity, Canada or Canadians, Catholics or Catholic Church, Priests, Secularism
- Locales: Canada, Toronto, Canada
The Novel
The action of Such Is My Beloved is deceptively simple. Father Stephen Dowling, an eager and intense young priest, becomes inexplicably drawn to and involved with two young streetwalkers, Veronica (Ronnie) Olsen and Catherine (Midge) Bourassa, in Toronto during the Great Depression of the 1930’s. Indeed, his involvement with the women constitutes the sole action of the novel. Father Dowling meets them on the street when they approach him on a cold winter day when he has his scarf around his neck, hiding his clerical collar. Although he is reluctant to go to...
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