Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Society of Jesus
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Mary Ward | Her later years are to be seen in terms of her inner spiritual life as well as her public religious-political activities. Though her relations with the Jesuits
and with the Papal Curia
were often difficult... |
Cultural formation | Gerard Manley Hopkins | GMH
entered the noviciate of the Jesuits
, as a step towards joining the Order; at this time he symbolically burned many of his poems—but he first sent some copies to Robert Bridges
. |
death | John Oliver Hobbes | A requiem mass was held for JOH
at the JesuitChurch of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, London, with an address given by Hobbes's friend Monsignor William Francis Brown
. She was buried... |
Literary responses | Georgiana Fullerton | Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this novel for the Athenæum, commented that GFalways writes with grace and tenderness, but she is afraid to trust herself to her own gifts. She seems to have a... |
Literary Setting | Selina Bunbury | This markedly anti-Catholic story (which goes out of its way to criticise the Jesuits
) begins in the twelfth century, when the abbey was founded. Rafroidi, Patrick. Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period (1789-1850). Humanities Press, 1980. 2: 83 |
politics | Mary Ward | She received her instructions with great clarity in an experience akin to a vision. Peters, Henriette. Mary Ward: A World in Contemplation. Butterworth, HelenTranslator , Gracewing Books, 1994. 114-15 |
Author summary | Gerard Manley Hopkins | GMH
, whose desire to publish his poetry was frustrated in his Victorian lifetime by his Jesuit
superiors, was first published in 1918 by his trusted friend and informal archivist Robert Bridges
. During the... |
Residence | Gerard Manley Hopkins | It was the custom of the Society of Jesus
that every Jesuit should be moved to a different position annually, to prevent the development of worldly ties. GMH
found this frequent uprooting very hard to... |
Textual Features | Winefrid Thimelby | |
Textual Production | Frances Trollope | |
Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | EW
published his first historical biography, that of Edmund Campion
, whom one of his reviewers called the most attractive of the Jesuits
who suffered under Queen Elizabeth
's penal administration. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. (3 October 1935): 606 |
Textual Production | Gerard Manley Hopkins | GMH
won the Poetry Prize at Highgate School
in 1860, the year he turned sixteen. He was still writing as an undergraduate at Oxford
in 1863-7. But when he became a Jesuit
in 1868 he... |
Textual Production | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Hopkins began writing poetry again after becoming a Jesuit
on officially-sanctioned religious topics, like the praise of the Virgin Mary. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Anne Barker | This magazine reflected its editor's wide interests. Along with items on the Jesuits
, on church fathers, on Helping London's Poor, it included articles on travel and pets, authors and composers. Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009. 170 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jemima Kindersley | At Salvador in Brazil she finds an oppressive government reflected in the domestic oppression of wives and daughters. She notes the high numbers of monks and nuns (3,000 in the town), the power of the... |
Timeline
16 August 1534
St Ignatius Loyola
, then an officer of Ferdinand V of Spain
, laid the foundation (at Paris) for the Jesuits
, also known as the Society of Jesus or the Order of Jesus.
27 September 1540
A Papal Bull officially established the Order of the Jesuits
at a maximum of sixty members.
1554
Juana of Austria
, sister of Philip II
of Spain, was secretly accepted into the Jesuit
order under the false name Mateo Sanchez.
Easter Saturday 1605
Luisa de Carvajal
, a Roman Catholic nun of noble Spanish family, landed at Dover as a missionary or activist at the behest of English Jesuits
. While in London she wrote revealing letters about the city.
By November 1700
The recently founded SPCK
opened a charity school for forty girls at St Andrew's in Holborn, where a boys' school had opened early in the year. Subscribers included Sarah, Lady Cowper
for three pounds...
1764
The Order of Jesuits
was suppressed in France, and its property confiscated.
21 July 1773
The Order of Jesuits
was abolished by Pope Clement XIV
; they took refuge in Prussia, where their presence fed English anti-Catholicism.
7 August 1814
Pope Pius VII
re-established the order of the Jesuits
, and Roman Catholic missionary work began again with vigour.
1822
A Jesuit
periodical began publication in English, bearing the title Annals of the Association for the Propagation of the Faith.
13 April 1829
The Catholic
Emancipation Act at last received the royal assent, allowing limited civil rights, for the first time, to Catholics in Britain.
1831-1846
Pope Gregory XVI
established a framework for organized Jesuit
activity, formally creating a huge number of vicariates across the world.
1851
In a novel entitled The Female Jesuit, or, a Spy in the Family, Jemima Luke
presents a Roman Catholic young woman, Marie, taken in by a Protestant family, where she makes all kinds of trouble.