Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Oxford Movement
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Publishing | John Henry Newman | 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. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 55 |
Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church
, JHN
began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics
and Dissenters
led them to suppose that the... |
Reception | John Henry Newman | 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. Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 100 Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press. |
Textual Production | John Henry Newman | 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... |
Cultural formation | Felicia Skene | The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland
; FS
's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Angela Thirkell | 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... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | CY
was confirmed in the Church of England
after several months of instruction from TractarianJohn Keble
. Christabel Coleridge wrongly gave the year as 1837, and has been followed by some other sources. Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. Macmillan and Co. 144 Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research. 18: 312 Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company. 53-4 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | The third great influence on CY
's life was John Keble
, the Tractarian churchman. He was already famous when he became a regular visitor in the home of the twelve-year-old Charlotte, though they had... |
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