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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Evelyn Underhill
Like Mysticism, this book displays great erudition. EU draws on research into eleven (mainly Christian) religious denominations to synthesize the nature, principles, and chief expressions of the human response to and relationship with the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Antonia Fraser
This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes , Thomas Winter , and Robert (Robin) Catesby ; rulers such as King James
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Medbh McGuckian
The first part of this volume revolves around MMG 's parents, particularly her father, who had recently died. The second part moves from the personal to encompass also the political, and revolves around dialogue: between...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Valentine Ackland
The letters are an intimate portrayal of the thirty-nine-year love affair between Warner and Ackland, from their first meeting until Ackland's death. Written when the two women were together and apart, the correspondence is a...
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 Helen Oyeyemi
The main character, Maja Carmen Carrera, a black Jazz singer, immigrated from Cuba to London when she was five years old. Pregnant and living with her (white) Ghanaian husband (Aaron, a doctor), Maja struggles to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Meeke
Something Odd! opens with a prefatory dialogue, The Author and his Pen, which consistently treats the author as male; he is addressed by the pen as master. It satirises both the Roman Catholic
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Gerard Manley Hopkins
He intended his poem as a pindaric ode on a modern Catholic martyrdom. It describes the raging force of the sea, the courage of the dominant nun who heartens her companions to die well, and...
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.
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, No. 1, pp. 3-14.
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Her Seymour family explore Europe: they see a mountain storm in Switzerland and an earthquake in Sicily. The...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Graham Greene
Centred on a corrupt, alcoholic Catholic priest, who is never named, it is one of six of Greene's novels that take Catholicism as a central theme. GG thought it the most satisfactory of his novels....
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sara Maitland
SM 's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church . Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Sinclair
CS sets up a dichotomy between Protestantism , which is based on the truth of Scripture, and Catholicism , which rests on legends. Without the Bible, she writes, men would be mere weeds in...
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.
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She begins with...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Charles
It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism .
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elinor James
Here she does not spare her vituperation against the new king's Catholic advisors, and is equally outspoken in her own resolve to sacrifice one hundred lives in the king's service if she had them.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon.
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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.

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.

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...

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.
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1906: Josephine Ward published her religious attack...

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1906

Josephine Ward published her religious attack on Modernism, Out of Due Time: A Novel.

1912: A religious novel by Mary Dickens, The Debtor,...

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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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