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.
Roman Catholic Church
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | The second part is devoted to France. MDF
laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism
: slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition
. She identifies... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The book does not measure up to the force and clarity of the opening. The suggestively-named Deletia Granville is a mysterious, neglected young girl at the outset, pensive and literary, loving sublime nature and her... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Georgiana Fullerton | A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte McCarthy | Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | The issues of education and the Fenians mesh together here, as hardships caused by bad education often draw male characters to the movement. The local Fenian head has been born and educated in Ireland... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Emma Robinson | In the body of the novel ER
pays little attention to her supposed source. She creates no fictitious narrator, and the style in which she relates the well-known story of Joan, or Jeanne (her peasant... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hilary Mantel | Its plot employs ghosts and revenants to satirize the bizarre machinations of the Roman Catholic Church
in the throes of change. Set in the mythical town of Fetherhoughton in the north of England in 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 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The clash between Nonconformist
and Roman Catholic
faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Bingham, Countess Lucan | Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand
of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett. 1 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 31 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Georgiana Fullerton | The primacy of Christianity, and especially the Roman Catholic
faith, underpins the novel's morality. As a child Princess Charlotte has been inoculated against faith, but she later rebels against this training. She is instructed in... |
Timeline
16 June 1846: Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory...
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16 June 1846
Pius IX
became Pope after the death of Gregory XVI
on 1 June 1846. The new Pope's election was a victory for liberals in the Roman Catholic Church
over the conservatives.
From 1848: Between this year and October 1996 (when...
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From 1848
Between this year and October 1996 (when the last one closed), over 30,000 women and girls were virtually imprisoned in Ireland'sMagdalene Asylums
for sexual misconduct or other perceived transgressions against the conservative moral code...
1848: The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters arrived...
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1848
The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters
arrived in Ireland, and the first Magdalene Asylums
were established.
17 July 1851: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...
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17 July 1851
John Lingard
, historian and Roman Catholic
priest, died at Hornby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...
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8 August 1851
The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England
) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger
(1790-1862).
1868: A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing...
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1868
A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing the Depravity of the Romish
Priesthood was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 25 August 1857.
24 October 1868: With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton,...
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24 October 1868
With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton
, novelist and journalist Frances Margaret Taylor
established, in rented rooms off Fleet Street, London, the religious community that would become the Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God
26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...
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26 July 1869
The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone
disestablished the Church of Ireland
and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords
.
13 September 1896: Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical Apostolicae...
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13 September 1896
Pope Leo XIII
published his encyclical Apostolicae Curae, which formally rejected Anglican ordinations within the Roman Catholic Church
as absolutely null and utterly void.
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins.
Edwards 284
1906: Josephine Ward published her religious attack...
Women writers item
1906
Josephine Ward
published her religious attack on Modernism, Out of Due Time: A Novel.
1912: A religious novel by Mary Dickens, The Debtor,...
Women writers item
1912
A religiousnovel by Mary Dickens
, The Debtor, was published.
21 August 1913: The Lock-Out Strike began in Dublin when...
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21 August 1913
The Lock-Out Strike began in Dublin when leading businessman William Martin Murphy
summarily dismissed two hundred parcels workers from his Dublin Tramways Company
on the grounds that they belonged to the Irish Transport Union
.
16 May 1920: Joan of Arc was canonised as a saint of the...
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16 May 1920
Joan of Arc
was canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
.
1926: Soon after Chatto and Windus published The...
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1926
Soon after Chatto and Windus
published The Cantab by Shane Leslie
, the book was censured by the Roman Catholic Church
, and Leslie (a Catholic himself, who had been critical of James Joyce
's...
1926: Frank Sheed and Masie Ward founded Sheed...
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1926
Frank Sheed
and Masie Ward
founded Sheed and Ward Limited
at 31 Paternoster Row, London, to publish and circulate Catholic
thought.
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