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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | CY
was confirmed in the Church of England
after several months of instruction from TractarianJohn Keble
. Christabel Coleridge wrongly gave the year as 1837, and has been followed by some other sources. Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. Macmillan and Co. 144 Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research. 18: 312 Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company. 53-4 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | The third great influence on CY
's life was John Keble
, the Tractarian churchman. He was already famous when he became a regular visitor in the home of the twelve-year-old Charlotte, though they had... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Thirkell | AT
's mother, Margaret Mackail
, was the only daughter of the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones
and moved in the highest circles both socially and culturally. She used to read to her children at breakfast... |
Cultural formation | Felicia Skene | The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland
; FS
's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | John Henry Newman | JHN
, Richard Hurrell Froude
, Edward Bouverie Pusey
, and others began anonymously publishing their series Tracts for the Times, as a statement of principles for the Tractarian
, or Oxford Movement. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 55 |
Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church
, JHN
began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics
and Dissenters
led them to suppose that the... |
Reception | John Henry Newman | This tract had the result of getting the Tract
s banned. Tutors at Oxford
wrote to demand the author's resignation, principals of colleges drew up a manifesto against it, and the university's Hebdomadal Board condemned it. Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 100 Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Textual Production | John Henry Newman | In 1866 JHN
published his religious poem The Dream of Gerontius in book form, after it appeared in The Month the previous year. He had also anonymously published two novels, Loss and Gain (1848), and... |
Cultural formation | Harriett Mozley | 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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Mozley | 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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Harriett Mozley | 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... |
Textual Features | John Stuart Mill | 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... |
Characters | Lucas Malet | 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... |
Textual Features | Lucas Malet | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Godley | 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... |
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