Euphemia endures by means of good counsel from the sermons of seventeenth-century Jeremy Taylor
, and of a friend whom she calls her Socratina or female Socrates
. While pregnant with her son Edward she...
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Mary Anne Barker
This magazine reflected its editor's wide interests. Along with items on the Jesuits
, on church fathers, on Helping London's Poor, it included articles on travel and pets, authors and composers.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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Violence
Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale
The family home of Lady Nithsdale
, Terregles Castle near Dumfries, was broken into by an armed mob a hundred strong, led by Presbyterian ministers, looking for illicit Catholic priests or Jesuits
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
