Benjamin Jowett
wrote to Cobbe to praise this book, but felt that it was too much indebted to Theodore Parker
. Public respondents included her friend Francis Newman
. The book was reviewed widely—at times...
Textual Production
Caroline Clive
CC
anonymously published a satire on John Henry Newman
and the Oxford Movement
: Saint Oldooman, a myth of the nineteenth century, contained in a letter from the Bishop of Verulanum to the Lord Drayton...
Intertextuality and Influence
Caroline Clive
It was based on Newman
's Lives of the English Saints; Oldooman alludes to the generally disparaging view of old women as fussy and prudish.
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Literary responses
Sarah Flower Adams
It achieved international recognition and became a favourite of Queen Victoria
, King Edward VII
, and United States president William McKinley
. Along with Cardinal John Henry Newman
's Lead Kindly Light, it...