Roberts, William. Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Hannah More. L. and G. Seeley, http://Rutherford HSS.
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Jansenists
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Hannah More | In conversation she defended some of the seventeenth-century Puritans (notably Richard Baxter
) and referred to my old friends at the Port-Royal
. Waldron, Mary. “Mentors Old and New: Samuel Johnson and Hannah More”. New Rambler, pp. 29-37. 31 Port-Royal was a convent of Cistercian nuns at Versailles... |
| Author summary | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
, who issued her first publication in 1813, has period interest as an aesthetic theorist and a religious writer, an apologist for the French Jansenist
movement connected with Port Royal
, and later for... |
| Textual Features | Hope Mirrlees | HM
sets her narrative during a period of female learning and literary productivity in seventeenth-century France. Madeleine Toqueville, a young girl, moves with her parents from their provincial home to Paris, where Madeleine's erotic... |
| Textual Features | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | Among the contents and specifically mentioned on the title-page is a translated essay entitled Thoughts on Death which comes from the Moral Essays of the Messieurs du Port Royal—that is, from the Jansenist
movement... |
| Textual Production | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | MAS
's interest in the Jansenist
centre Port Royal
led her to issue an anonymous translation and adaptation of one of its texts: Narrative of a Tour taken in the Year 1667, to La Grande... |
Timeline
1670: Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion,...
Writing climate item
1670
Les Pensées de M. Pascal
sur la réligion, et sur quelques autres sujets was posthumously published: it takes the form of a collection of aphorisms and very brief essays.
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