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| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Catherine Cookson | That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure... |
| Violence | Lady Lucy Herbert | The Lincoln's Inn Fields house of Lord Powis
(recently released after years in prison on suspicion of treasonable Catholic
plotting, father of future writers Lucy
and Winifred
) was burned to the ground by chance... |
| Travel | Elizabeth Jennings | The award required that its winner spend three months in a foreign country, observing the ways of people in another culture. EJ
felt most grateful for the enjoyable experience, terming her Italian travels the happiest... |
| Travel | Graham Greene | Commissioned by a London publishing house to write about the Mexican Catholic church
, GG
travelled to Mexico. Greene, Graham. Graham Greene. A Life in Letters. Editor Greene, Richard, Alfred A. Knopf. 78 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Jay | Madge Dunraven also differs widely in its presentation of Catholicism
both from HJ
's first and second novels. Along with her positive portrait of Irish philanthropy, she presents Catholic characters as living their religion, while... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | Here she writes also about the English Civil War as a way of writing about the First World War. She writes in a similarly veiled manner about her own religious struggles at a time when... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte Despard | In this historically-based essay CD
sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. Shaw, Frederick John, editor. The Case for Women’s Suffrage. Unwin. 190 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Calderwood | In Holland she reports in detail on horses and carriages, agriculture, the styles of dress and houses, customs like those for Sundays (solemn church attendance, followed by feasting, drinking and dancing). Calderwood, Margaret. Letters and Journals. David Douglas. 86 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Atkins | With a vulgar father and a mother ignorant of high society, Mary grows up unguided. A coquette and an heiress after her father's death, she secretly cares for the curate John Leigh, but flirts culpably... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Maria Hall | This novel is set in France, England, and Ireland. The action occurs in the seventeenth century as a Huguenot girl escapes oppression in France by fleeing to England and then Ireland... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriett Jay | The novel consistently attacks Roman Catholics
as prejudiced, supersititious, and dangerously under the thrall of their priests. Through O'Brien, HJ
blames the poor for their own poverty, painting them as stupidly resistant to change that... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Bird | On one hand she lauds American religious feeling, especially as expressed in the New England States, but she calls slave-owning southerners hypocrites, and worries about the effect of Catholicism
in the mid-Western states of Illinois... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheila Kaye-Smith | This book takes up some of the same themes as The Lardners and the Laurelwoods, 1948. Through its narrator, the not entirely sympathetically presented Parson Carpenter, this novel offers another two-generation story of the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, pp. 3-14. 7 |
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.
1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...
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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.
12 July 1539: With Henry VIII's personal support, an Act...
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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.
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
.
1545 to 1563: The Council of Trent outlined the shape of...
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1545 to 1563
The Council of Trent
outlined the shape of Roman Catholic
beliefs for centuries to come.
15 August 1549: St Francis Xavier landed at the port of Kagoshima...
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15 August 1549
St Francis Xavier
landed at the port of Kagoshima in Japan as a missionary preacher.
July 1550: A warrant was issued for money setting up...
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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.
6 July 1553: The sixteen-year-old Edward VI died, producing...
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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...
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Spring1554
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.
June 1554: An eighteen-year-old servant, Elizabeth Croft,...
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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...
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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.
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.
20-21 September 1586: Anthony Babington and six other Roman Catholics...
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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).
August 1598: Full-scale revolt against English rule (that...
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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
.
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).
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