Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
St Monica's Convent
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Cultural formation | Catherine Holland | CH
(now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's
in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism
. It... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Holland | The final stage of CH
's struggle with her father lasted two more years. The Bishop of Winchester was brought in to convince her of the error of her views. She called him a pretended... |
death | Winefrid Thimelby | |
death | Gertrude Thimelby | GT
died in St Monica's
convent at Louvain, aged forty-seven, after ten years as a widowed nun. Morris, John, editor. The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers. Gregg International Publishers, 1970. 370 |
death | Elizabeth Shirley | ES
died in her convent of St Monica's
at Louvain in what is now Belgium: she was said to be seventy-five (in the 76th year of her age) qtd. in Shirley, Evelyn Philip. Stemmata Shirleiana. 2nd ed., Nichols and Sons, 1873. 81 Contributions to... |
Education | Winefrid Thimelby | At the age of twelve she entered the school run by the English Augustinian Canonesses
at St Monica's
, at Louvain in present-day Belgium. Dorothy L. Latz
notes the influence on her of St Augustine |
Occupation | Winefrid Thimelby | WT
, in her teens, was professed as a nun, with the English Augustinian Canonesses
at St Monica's
at Louvain in Belgium. Latz says she was fifteen, though this conflicts with the birthdate which... |
Occupation | Winefrid Thimelby | WT
became prioress of her convent, St Monica's
at Louvain, where she became the most loved of all the Mothers. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Thimelby, Winefrid. The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran, at St. Monica’s in Louvain. Editor Hamilton, Adam, Sands, 1904–1906, 2 vols. 1: 130 |
Occupation | Winefrid Thimelby | She had an aunt already at the convent, and was later joined there by her sister Frances. St Monica's had been founded from St Ursula's at Louvain when the latter proved inadequate for the numbers... |
Occupation | Gertrude Thimelby | GT
lived the rest of her life as a nun of St Monica's
, Louvain, no doubt participating in the writing in which this women's community was fruitful, as well as in its devotional life. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Shirley | ES
was one of two movers in the founding of St Monica's Convent
at Louvain, of the Order of the English Augustinian Canonesses
, where the seven nuns who came from St Ursula's
moved... |
Occupation | Catherine Holland | CH
was professed as a nun, one of the English Augustinian Canonesses
, at Nazareth Monastery (the English Convent) at Bruges (founded from St Monica's
, Louvain). CH
writes this date, in a... |
Residence | Gertrude Thimelby | After more than a decade of widowhood, GT
entered the convent of her sister-in-law Winefrid Thimelby
: St Monica's
at Louvain (now in Belgium). Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Morris, John, editor. The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers. Gregg International Publishers, 1970. 269, 370 |
Textual Production | Winefrid Thimelby | Historian John Morris
thinks a fresh pen took up (after the event) the story of St Monica's
from about 1639; the later historian Dom Adam Hamilton
(who identifies WT
as possible author) thinks she covered... |
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