Oxford Movement

With her friend Lady Harriet Howard , the future CFA contributed to tracts for the Oxford Movement , published during these years.

Harriet was the daughter of Lord Wicklow . The young girls visited nearby schools, teaching Church catechism, and reading and praying with the less fortunate. Both women were greatly influenced in their youth by the...

In 1848 CFA met British novelist Charlotte Yonge and the leader of the Oxford Movement , John Keble .CFA 's husband believed that Keble endowed her with a sense of the magic, of the...

Also a follower of the Oxford Movement , Alexander was rector of Termonamongan parish, Killeter, County Tyrone, from that year; he too was a poet.

It was dedicated to John Keble , leader of the Oxford Movement , and contained, as well as the poems, questions for examination. The preface was written by Dr Walter Farquar Hook , who, according...

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...

CC anonymously published a satire on John Henry Newman and the Oxford Movement : Saint Oldooman, a myth of the nineteenth century, contained in a letter from the Bishop of Verulanum to the Lord Drayton...

In Mrs. Gerald's Niece Margaret, the heroine of Grantley Manor, is now Mrs Walter Sydney and is thirty-seven. The new novel engages with the Oxford Movement , detailing the doctrinal progression of Ita and...

John Godley, who was a friend of Charlotte's brother Charles , was born in Ireland on 29 May 1814, most likely at Dublin. He was the son of an Irish landowner, whose family home...

Meanwhile the reader's focus is often on Mary Crookenden: her delicacy (or brittleness), her flocks of admirers, her relations with older family members, and the artistic talent which had led her while still a child...

Sir Richard Calmady, Dickie, named after his athletic father but grotesquely deformed, grows up in isolation, carefully sheltered, while the neighbours develop rumours of Papism in Marie de Mirancourt, an old family friend, and Julian...

Mill announces in his introductory chapter that his subject will be Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. Freedom of choice...

Harriett remained committed to the Church of England throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological...

Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley 's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...

She found the writing of this far harder than she had her first book. Earlier in the year she reported, I get on shamefully slow, even though she knew already exactly what she meant to...