Cowper, Mary, Countess. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864.
56-57
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Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic
, she became a committed... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
was so unfortunate as to have a great many Relations (most of them Roman Catholics
) who joined the Jacobite
rebellion of 1715. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand
of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing... |
| Cultural formation | Constance Countess Markievicz | Shortly after her first release from prison, Irish nationalist Constance, Countess Markievicz,
became a Roman Catholic
. Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books, 1967. 234 |
| Cultural formation | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | She was brought up a Catholic
but became a sceptic, apart from a continuing superstitious feeling about religion. Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114. 14 |
| Cultural formation | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | She came from an ancient, noble, Roman Catholic
family, who were English with some claim to be Welsh. Sheffield Grace
, who wrote comments on her famous letter in 1827, ascribed her qualities to her... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis
, came from an influential Catholic
royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell
(one of the famous Cook sisters)... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred's father, William Herbert
, was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic
religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier... |
| Cultural formation | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist
mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection
, and an Irish, originally Catholic
, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic
faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism
. (As the Puritan John Field
put it... |
| politics | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Lady Tyrwhit and her husband continued to prosper through the reign of Queen Mary
. Susan M. Felch points out that long before she was a persecutor of Protestants, Mary had participated in the humanist... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Tyrwhit's prayers bring together, in cheerful ecumenicity, the Bible, the old Roman Catholic
tradition of books of hours, and newer Lutheran
and humanist influence, grafting new thinking onto an age-old tradition of piety... |
| Cultural formation | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican
faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism
. She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 6, 19 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, was finally received into the Catholic Church
, years after her reading in the Catholic Fathers had first made her wish to do this. Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 165-82. 167 and n11 Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 7 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, arranged the abduction her two youngest sons, Henry and Patrick
, at their own wish, from Great Tew to travel to Europe and be educated as Catholics
. Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 165-82. 170 Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 8, 181 Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75. 259 |
Timeline
1400-50: During this half-century, one third of all...
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1400-50
During this half-century, one third of all new saints canonised by the Catholic Church
were women.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
21
1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...
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1527
A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer
, wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus
, whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Archives”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 62-7.
63-7
12 July 1539: With Henry VIII's personal support, an Act...
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12 July 1539
With Henry VIII
's personal support, an Act came into force establishing Six Articles of Religion for the Church in England (still at this date the Catholic Church
) to subscribe to.
Ridley, Jasper. Henry VIII. Constable, 1984.
329-31
21 July 1542: Pope Paul III revived the medieval inquisition...
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21 July 1542
Pope Paul III
revived the medieval inquisition to counter the threat posed to Roman Catholicism
by the new Protestant thinking of Martin Luther
and John Calvin
.
Cristianità. http://www.alleanzacattolica.org/.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
1545 to 1563: The Council of Trent outlined the shape of...
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1545 to 1563
The Council of Trent
outlined the shape of Roman Catholic
beliefs for centuries to come.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
27: 248-9
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
15 August 1549: St Francis Xavier landed at the port of Kagoshima...
National or international item
15 August 1549
St Francis Xavier
landed at the port of Kagoshima in Japan as a missionary preacher.
“Japan”. Local Catholic Church History and Genealogy.
July 1550: A warrant was issued for money setting up...
Writing climate item
July 1550
A warrant was issued for money setting up Humphrey Powell
as royal printer in Dublin. Next year he issued an edition of The Book of Common Prayer which was the first book published in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
6 July 1553: The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing...
National or international item
6 July 1553
The sixteen-year-old Edward VI
died, producing a succession crisis: for fear of rule by his Catholic
sister Mary
, Edward pronounced both his sisters to be bastards, and the crown passed (very briefly) to Lady Jane Grey
: Each adult in England, of either sex, was...
National or international item
Spring 1554
Each adult in England, of either sex, was required by their bishop to make a formal statement of Catholic
faith before they were eligible to make their Easter Communion.
Duffy, Eamon. “Rolling Back the Reformation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2008, pp. 27-9. 28
June 1554: An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft,...
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June 1554
An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft
, confessed in front of a crowd gathered at St Paul's Cross in London that she had taken part in a hoax, playing a supernatural voice that spoke from a...
February 1555: The law was changed to permit burning alive...
National or international item
February 1555
The law was changed to permit burning alive for heresy: during the rest of Mary I
's reign at least 274 persons were burned in England for their Protestant belief.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
261
Duffy, Eamon. “Rolling Back the Reformation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2008, pp. 27-9. 27-9
1559: The Roman Catholic Church set up the Index...
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1559
The Roman Catholic Church
set up the Index Librorum Prohibitorum or list of prohibited books, to protect its flock from dangerous and heretical ideas.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
20-21 September 1586: Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics...
National or international item
20-21 September 1586
Anthony Babington
and six other Roman Catholics
were executed for high treason (plotting to murder Queen Elizabeth
with the intention of putting Mary, Queen of Scots
, on the throne).
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
August 1598: Full-scale revolt against English rule (that...
National or international item
August 1598
Full-scale revolt against English rule (that is, rule over the Roman Catholic Church
majority by a newly-settled Anglican
elite) broke out in Ireland in the form of Tyrone's Rebellion, led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
.
Jones, Harrie Stuart Vedder. A Spenser Handbook. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1930.
35
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13. 22
1627: An anonymous book appeared at London entitled...
Women writers item
1627
An anonymous book appeared at London entitled A Mothers Teares over Hir Seduced Sonne (seduced not sexually but by the Catholic
faith away from the Protestant).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
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