John Henry Newman

21 February 1801 - 11 August 1890

Standard Name: Newman, John Henry

Used Form: Cardinal Newman

Used Form: J. H. Newman

JHN 's many writings on theology and education were an important component of his career as Victorian religious seeker, teacher, and man of letters.

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Textual Features	Emma Jane Worboise	Arnold represented a fascinating subject for a biographer interested in the shades of religious faith and their interaction with secular politics. Worboise relates his experiences as a member of the Senate of the new London University
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Augusta Ward	MAW 's mother, born Julia Sorell , was the granddaughter of William Sorell , who was Governor of Tasmania from 1775 to 1848 and a flagrant adulterer. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 6, 5 Julia Sorell's mother, born Elizabeth Julia Kemp
Wealth and Poverty	Mary Augusta Ward	Thomas Arnold's half-pay covered only the family's departure expenses, and when they arrived in England the couple were destitute. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 10 Thanks to John Henry Newman , Arnold soon obtained a position at the Catholic University
Reception	Mary Augusta Ward	Understanding the difficulties of dealing in detail with Victorian religious perplexity, MAW herself placed the book in the tradition of religious or social propaganda Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918. 229 shared by Froude 's The Nemesis of Faith, Newman
Textual Production	Muriel Spark	MS edited with Derek StanfordLetters of John Henry Newman : A Selection (he dealing with Newman as an Anglican, she with Newman as a Catholic). Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press, 1992. 21 Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable, 1992. 202
Cultural formation	Muriel Spark	The writings of Cardinal John Henry Newman were very influential in MS 's religious education, since she found she could identify with Newman's personal style as well as his ideas. Father Philip Caraman , a...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Sewell	The leaders she met included John Keble , John Henry Newman , and Henry Wilberforce ; she also met Charlotte Yonge . Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907. 62-3 It was soon after this meeting that Newman, Wilberforce, and Edward Bellasis all joined the Catholic Church .
Education	C. E. Plumptre	Though nothing is know of CEP 's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which...
Author summary	Anne Mozley	AM , publishing from the late 1830s to the final decade of the century, remained always anonymous and worked mostly in marginal genres, with the result that she is little known and several of her...
Friends, Associates	Anne Mozley	Since Tom had gone up to Oxford as an undergraduate in 1825, Anne had been hearing at second hand about his friends, men who in after-times were to influence their generation. Wordsworth, John, Bishop of Salisbury, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, p. xii - xx. viii It was in...
Textual Production	Anne Mozley	AM also edited the Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman during his life in the English Church, published in 1890, which went through many further editions. John Wordsworth says that, while editing her...
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriett Mozley	HM became finally estranged from her brother, John Henry Newman (after years of intellectual argument), when he converted to Roman Catholicism . Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962. 33, 163
Author summary	Harriett Mozley	HM 's writings, published over about a decade of the mid-nineteenth century, are deeply involved with the sectarian struggles within the Church of England to which her brother, later Cardinal Newman , largely contributed. She...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriett Mozley	Harriett's eldest brother, John Henry Newman , became first a clergyman and national religious leader of the Anglican Church , then a Catholic , and eventually a Cardinal. Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962. xvi In 1828 John wrote to HM

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Later 1841

Father Dominic Barberi arrived in England to aid the Roman Catholic missions; he later became a famous missionary through his conversions, the most notable of these being John Newman .