John Henry Newman

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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.

Connections

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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. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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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. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press.
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.
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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.
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Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable.
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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.
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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, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, p. xii - xx.
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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.
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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.
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In 1828 John wrote to HM

Timeline

Later 1841: Father Dominic Barberi arrived in England...

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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 .

26 March 1845: The first two Anglican sisters arrived at...

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26 March 1845

The first two Anglican sisters arrived at 17 Park Village West (near Regent's Park in London) to take up residence with the Sisterhood of the Holy Cross , a newly-founded nursing order which was the...

Late 1845: Following Newman's example, Evangelical minister...

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Late 1845

Following Newman 's example, Evangelical minister Frederick Faber converted to Roman Catholicism; he later became the guiding spirit of Victorian popular Catholicism.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon.
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July 1852: The first Provincial Synod of the English...

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July 1852

The first Provincial Synod of the English Roman Catholic Church was held; the hierarchy had been restored two years previously.

3 November 1854: University College, Ireland's first Catholic...

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3 November 1854

University College , Ireland's first Catholic university, was officially opened at 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin.

January 1858: The first issue of The Atlantis was published,...

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January 1858

The first issue of The Atlantis was published, a scholarly journal edited by J. H. Newman (Rector of the new Catholic University of Ireland ), with William K. Sullivan .

Texts

Newman, John Henry. Apologia pro vita sua. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
Newman, John Henry. Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman. Editor Mozley, Anne, Longmans, Green, 1891.
Newman, John Henry. “Prefatory Notice”. Newman Reader: Meditations and Devotions of the Late Cardinal Newman, 1907, edited by William P. Neville.
Newman, John Henry. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated. Pickering, 1873.
Newman, John Henry et al. Tracts for the Times. Rivington; Parker.