Talk:Frances Parkinson Keyes
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<<Keyes was an American author, and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose works frequently featured Catholic themes and beliefs.>>
I see Keyes as more of an historical novelist than a Catholic writer. In her novels, the Catholic themes do not jump out at the reader. Should her Catholicism be listed twice in the introductory sentence? AaronCBurke 20:59, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
I think you are right that Keyes has traditionally been seen as a historical writer rather than a Catholic author. However, I think Catholicism is a major theme in almost all of her work after 1936. In fact, her conversion to Catholicism increasingly informed most of her writing, especially following the death of her husband. I suspect her publishers, wishing to attract a wider audience, preferred to market her stories as historical or dynastic tales rather than promote them as stories with a spiritual theme. Bgriffith 02:15, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
