Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Roman Catholic Church
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Marsh | The first half of the book details the deaths of several patients in the cholera wards whom CM
had visited and talked with about God. The second half asks the reader: Are you safe there... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | Written specifically for use in Sunday Schools, it relates the sufferings of Protestant Martyrs such as Anne Askew
, Katherine Hut
, and Elizabeth Thackvel
. The sufferings of Anne Askew (here seen as martyr... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Jay | Madge Dunraven also differs widely in its presentation of Catholicism
both from HJ
's first and second novels. Along with her positive portrait of Irish philanthropy, she presents Catholic characters as living their religion, while... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Georgiana Fullerton | A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she writes also about the English Civil War as a way of writing about the First World War. She writes in a similarly veiled manner about her own religious struggles at a time when... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan. 149 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Jay | The novel consistently attacks Roman Catholics
as prejudiced, supersititious, and dangerously under the thrall of their priests. Through O'Brien, HJ
blames the poor for their own poverty, painting them as stupidly resistant to change that... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country Ward, Mary Augusta. Helbeck of Bannisdale. Editor Worthington, Brian, Penguin. 86 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The clash between Nonconformist
and Roman Catholic
faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | This book takes up some of the same themes as The Lardners and the Laurelwoods, 1948. Through its narrator, the not entirely sympathetically presented Parson Carpenter, this novel offers another two-generation story of the... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism
. When her father demands whether... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Roxburghe Lothian | RL
sets out to portray Dante and Beatrice's relationship in the context of the social and political conditions that surrounded them, while simultaneously arguing that the Divina Commedia emerged from this real love, this... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 31 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Pearson | These jaunty poems contrast with a gothic-toned narrative about a party of boar-hunters who are joined by a mysterious White Knight who seems to be on a temporary pass out of Hell. SP
speculates on... |
Timeline
1928: Two separate researchers in Germany, Ogino...
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1930: The Roman Catholic Church reiterated its...
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1930
The Roman Catholic Church
reiterated its continued non-acceptance of contraceptives in Pope Pius XI
's encyclical Casti connubii.
24 January 1960: The Catholic Church, through an Ecclesiastical...
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24 January 1960
The Catholic Church
, through an Ecclesiastical Council called by Pope John XXIII , decreed that women in Rome who were deemed to be dressed inappropriately should be barred from receiving the sacraments of baptism...
10 May 1960: In the USA the FDA approved the use of the...
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10 May 1960
In the USA the FDA
approved the use of the progestin oral contraceptive pill (marketed as Enovid). This had been developed by experimental scientist Gregory Pincus
(later in collaboration with physician John Rock
), whom...
2 December 1960: Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher, Archibishop...
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2 December 1960
3 January 1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban leader...
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3 January 1962
11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...
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11 October 1962
3 June 1963: The death of the liberal Pope John XXIII...
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3 June 1963
The death of the liberal Pope John XXIII marked the end of a brief reforming period in the life of the Roman Catholic Church
.
1968: Mary Daly, an academic at the Jesuit-run...
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1968
Mary Daly
, an academic at the Jesuit-run Boston College
, published the first of her works in feministtheology, The Church and the Second Sex, an analysis of Roman Catholic
and, more broadly, Christian
thinking about women.
25 July 1968: Less than two months into his pontificate,...
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25 July 1968
Less than two months into his pontificate, Pope Paul VI
issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae on The Regulation of Birth, reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church
's anti-contraceptive position.
August 1969: Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland:...
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August 1969
Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland: in Derry nationalist protestors attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary
with bricks and petrol bombs, driving them out of the city's Catholic
area of Bogside; in Belfast hundreds of families...
1973: US feminist theologian Mary Daly published...
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1973
US feministtheologianMary Daly
published Beyond God the Father, which she called a self-conferred diploma marking her graduation from the Catholic church.
22 January 1973: In a case known as Roe v. Wade the US Supreme...
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22 January 1973
In a case known as Roe v. Wade the US Supreme Court
ruled that abortion was legal in some circumstances, and that state legislation which totally criminalized abortion was therefore illegal.
19 August 1977: The comedy Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley...
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19 August 1977
The comedyOnce a Catholic by Mary O'Malley
opened at the Royal Court Theatre
; it transferred to the West End later this year and won a string of awards.
14 January 1994: Katharine, Duchess of Kent, converted to...
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14 January 1994
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
, converted to Catholicism
, becoming the first Roman Catholic member of the British Royal Family in more than 300 years.
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