JJ
began his university studies. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree (at pass level only) in 1902 from University College, Dublin, which had been founded in 1854 by John Henry Newman
as the...
Family and Intimate relationships
May Laffan
ML
's elder brother, William Mackay Laffan
, became a dilettante medical student at what May called the unchartered useless Catholic University
qtd. in
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.
Her sister, Lucy Josephine (born in 1840), studied the classics, married the Rev John Gwynn (later a regius professor at the University of Dublin
), and was the ancestor of Charlotte's biographer Stephen Lucius Gwynn...
Textual Production
John Henry Newman
This book consists of two previous publications. The first, Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin, published on its own on 2 February 1853, was based...
Timeline
January 1858: The first issue of The Atlantis was published,...
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.