Oxford Movement

In Mrs. Gerald's Niece Margaret, the heroine of Grantley Manor, is now Mrs Walter Sydney and is thirty-seven. The new novel engages with the Oxford Movement , detailing the doctrinal progression of Ita and...

Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley 's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...

CC anonymously published a satire on John Henry Newman and the Oxford Movement : Saint Oldooman, a myth of the nineteenth century, contained in a letter from the Bishop of Verulanum to the Lord Drayton...

With her friend Lady Harriet Howard , the future CFA contributed to tracts for the Oxford Movement , published during these years.

In 1866 JHN published his religious poem The Dream of Gerontius in book form, after it appeared in The Month the previous year. He had also anonymously published two novels, Loss and Gain (1848), and...

Sir Richard Calmady, Dickie, named after his athletic father but grotesquely deformed, grows up in isolation, carefully sheltered, while the neighbours develop rumours of Papism in Marie de Mirancourt, an old family friend, and Julian...

Mill announces in his introductory chapter that his subject will be Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. Freedom of choice...

This tract had the result of getting the Tract s banned. Tutors at Oxford wrote to demand the author's resignation, principals of colleges drew up a manifesto against it, and the university's Hebdomadal Board condemned it.

JHN , Richard Hurrell Froude , Edward Bouverie Pusey , and others began anonymously publishing their series Tracts for the Times, as a statement of principles for the Tractarian , or Oxford Movement.

She found the writing of this far harder than she had her first book. Earlier in the year she reported, I get on shamefully slow, even though she knew already exactly what she meant to...

Harriet was the daughter of Lord Wicklow . The young girls visited nearby schools, teaching Church catechism, and reading and praying with the less fortunate. Both women were greatly influenced in their youth by the...

John Godley, who was a friend of Charlotte's brother Charles , was born in Ireland on 29 May 1814, most likely at Dublin. He was the son of an Irish landowner, whose family home...

Also a follower of the Oxford Movement , Alexander was rector of Termonamongan parish, Killeter, County Tyrone, from that year; he too was a poet.

AT 's mother, Margaret Mackail , was the only daughter of the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones and moved in the highest circles both socially and culturally. She used to read to her children at breakfast...

It was dedicated to John Keble , leader of the Oxford Movement , and contained, as well as the poems, questions for examination. The preface was written by Dr Walter Farquar Hook , who, according...