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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. 170 |
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. 2: 83 |
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... |
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... |
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
. Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
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 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 et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Lennox | Euphemia endures by means of good counsel from the sermons of seventeenth-century Jeremy Taylor
, and of a friend whom she calls her Socratina or female Socrates
. While pregnant with her son Edward she... |
Textual Features | Winefrid Thimelby | |
Textual Production | Frances Trollope | |
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... |
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