Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes
included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH
to Henry Turberville
on choosing the Anglican
over... |
| Birth | Lady Lucy Herbert | LLH
was born at the fortified stronghold of Powis Castle in Montgomeryshire, the youngest but one of a large and distinguished Roman Catholic
family. Henrietta Tayler
gives the year of her birth as 1668... |
| Characters | Marie Belloc Lowndes | With characters from a multiplicity of countries, the novel is set in London and an English country house. The Russian Paul Feyghine wastes the best years of his life for love of an unworthy Spanish... |
| Characters | Antonia Fraser | The wedding in the novel is to unite British royalty (in the person of Princess Amy) to a Roman Catholic
spouse (in the person of Prince Ferdinand), for the first time since the Stuarts. Jemima... |
| Characters | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston
) with... |
| Characters | Jennifer Johnston | |
| Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | A Roman Catholic
widow feels after the death of her weak-natured husband that she has been unfaithful to him in her soul. She therefore declines the hand of a deserving man who has long loved... |
| Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | Laurentia is another of Fullerton's historical novels, in this case written with the intent of providing a picture of the Church of Japan in the sixteenth century, and to illustrate in the shape of a... |
| Characters | Roma White | This story is oddly poised between admiration for the free-spirited and bohemian, respect for social convention, sympathy with those who despise social convention, and a strong Christian moral spirituality in which the choice between good... |
| Characters | Willa Cather | Her heroine, Myra Driscoll, is a Roman Catholic
who sets her religion aside and elopes to marry a Protestant, Oswald Henshawe, bringing down on herself family disapproval and disinheritance. Her brave insistence on marrying for... |
| Characters | John Oliver Hobbes | Time passes, and Sophy is happily married and then widowed, while Jim becomes a Nonconformist minister. The Firmalden siblings become intimate with an aristocratic Roman Catholic
couple, Lord Basil and Lady Tessa Marlesford. Struggle over... |
| Characters | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College
who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with... |
| Cultural formation | Frances Burney | FB
was serious about her Anglican
faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism
, which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic. Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 23 |
| Cultural formation | Kate Marsden | Aspects of her identity shifted over time. KM
was born into an English, professional, presumably white family of the upper-middle class, who lost their financial security because of her father's early death. Protestant for much... |
| Cultural formation | Dorothea Celesia | Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She... |
Timeline
1400-50: During this half-century, one third of all...
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1400-50
During this half-century, one third of all new saints canonised by the Catholic Church
were women.
Robinson, Jane. Pandora’s Daughters: The Secret History of Enterprising Women. Constable, 2002.
21
1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...
Building item
1527
A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer
, wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus
, whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Archives”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 62-7.
63-7
12 July 1539: With Henry VIII's personal support, an Act...
National or international item
12 July 1539
With Henry VIII
's personal support, an Act came into force establishing Six Articles of Religion for the Church in England (still at this date the Catholic Church
) to subscribe to.
Ridley, Jasper. Henry VIII. Constable, 1984.
329-31
21 July 1542: Pope Paul III revived the medieval inquisition...
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21 July 1542
Pope Paul III
revived the medieval inquisition to counter the threat posed to Roman Catholicism
by the new Protestant thinking of Martin Luther
and John Calvin
.
Cristianità. http://www.alleanzacattolica.org/.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
1545 to 1563: The Council of Trent outlined the shape of...
National or international item
1545 to 1563
The Council of Trent
outlined the shape of Roman Catholic
beliefs for centuries to come.
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
27: 248-9
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
15 August 1549: St Francis Xavier landed at the port of Kagoshima...
National or international item
15 August 1549
St Francis Xavier
landed at the port of Kagoshima in Japan as a missionary preacher.
“Japan”. Local Catholic Church History and Genealogy.
July 1550: A warrant was issued for money setting up...
Writing climate item
July 1550
A warrant was issued for money setting up Humphrey Powell
as royal printer in Dublin. Next year he issued an edition of The Book of Common Prayer which was the first book published in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
6 July 1553: The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing...
National or international item
6 July 1553
The sixteen-year-old Edward VI
died, producing a succession crisis: for fear of rule by his Catholic
sister Mary
, Edward pronounced both his sisters to be bastards, and the crown passed (very briefly) to Lady Jane Grey
: Each adult in England, of either sex, was...
National or international item
Spring 1554
Each adult in England, of either sex, was required by their bishop to make a formal statement of Catholic
faith before they were eligible to make their Easter Communion.
Duffy, Eamon. “Rolling Back the Reformation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2008, pp. 27-9. 28
June 1554: An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft,...
Building item
June 1554
An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft
, confessed in front of a crowd gathered at St Paul's Cross in London that she had taken part in a hoax, playing a supernatural voice that spoke from a...
February 1555: The law was changed to permit burning alive...
National or international item
February 1555
The law was changed to permit burning alive for heresy: during the rest of Mary I
's reign at least 274 persons were burned in England for their Protestant belief.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
261
Duffy, Eamon. “Rolling Back the Reformation”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 3, 7 Feb. 2008, pp. 27-9. 27-9
1559: The Roman Catholic Church set up the Index...
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1559
The Roman Catholic Church
set up the Index Librorum Prohibitorum or list of prohibited books, to protect its flock from dangerous and heretical ideas.
Encyclopædia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/.
20-21 September 1586: Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics...
National or international item
20-21 September 1586
Anthony Babington
and six other Roman Catholics
were executed for high treason (plotting to murder Queen Elizabeth
with the intention of putting Mary, Queen of Scots
, on the throne).
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
August 1598: Full-scale revolt against English rule (that...
National or international item
August 1598
Full-scale revolt against English rule (that is, rule over the Roman Catholic Church
majority by a newly-settled Anglican
elite) broke out in Ireland in the form of Tyrone's Rebellion, led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
.
Jones, Harrie Stuart Vedder. A Spenser Handbook. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1930.
35
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13. 22
1627: An anonymous book appeared at London entitled...
Women writers item
1627
An anonymous book appeared at London entitled A Mothers Teares over Hir Seduced Sonne (seduced not sexually but by the Catholic
faith away from the Protestant).
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
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