Harriett remained committed to the Church of England
throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman
converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological...
Cultural formation
Emily Hickey
Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King
, or by John Henry Newman
, EH
converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
, which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance.
Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More, 1927.
43, 41
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 169
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Cultural formation
John Oliver Hobbes
Before this she had worshipped, like her parents, at the City Temple
, a leading Nonconformist church.
Swan, Annie S. The Letters of Annie S. Swan. Editor Nicoll, Mildred Robertson, Hodder and Stoughton, 1945.
36
Swan, Annie S. My Life. Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1934.
99
The conversion surprised her friends and family, and her mother was particularly upset and hostile. Hobbes...
Cultural formation
Muriel Spark
The writings of Cardinal John Henry Newman
were very influential in MS
's religious education, since she found she could identify with Newman's personal style as well as his ideas. Father Philip Caraman
, a...
Education
Sara Coleridge
Because of her interest in contemporary theological debate, SC
devoted her spring and summer to studying the works of John Henry Newman
and of her father
.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989.
94
Education
C. E. Plumptre
Though nothing is know of CEP
's early education, in later life she kept an extensive library. On visiting her, Frederick James Gould
noted that it was selected and arranged in an impressive order which...
Education
James Joyce
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
Harriett Mozley
HM
became finally estranged from her brother, John Henry Newman
(after years of intellectual argument), when he converted to Roman Catholicism
.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
33, 163
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriett Mozley
Harriett's eldest brother, John Henry Newman
, became first a clergyman and national religious leader of the Anglican Church
, then a Catholic
, and eventually a Cardinal.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
AG
's paternal aunts were closely associated in their youth with the young John Henry Newman
and his brother Francis W. Newman
. Sarah married a curate working for William Wilson (AG
's grandfather)....
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
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.
Since Tom had gone up to Oxford
as an undergraduate in 1825, Anne had been hearing at second hand about his friends, men who in after-times were to influence their generation.
Wordsworth, John, and Anne Mozley. “Memoir”. Essays from "Blackwood", edited by F. Mozley and F. Mozley, William Blackwood and Sons, 1892, p. xii - xx.
viii
It was in...
Friends, Associates
Frances Power Cobbe
By this point in her life she was corresponding regularly with Frank Newman
(younger brother of Cardinal Newman
and of Harriett Mozley
, who was an agnostic for most of his life). James Martineau
...
Father Dominic Barberi
arrived in England to aid the Roman Catholic missions; he later became a famous missionary through his conversions, the most notable of these being John Newman
.
26 March 1845
The first two Anglican sisters arrived at 17 Park Village West (near Regent's Park in London) to take up residence with the Sisterhood of the Holy Cross
, a newly-founded nursing order which was the...
Late 1845
Following Newman
's example, Evangelical minister Frederick Faber
converted to Roman Catholicism; he later became the guiding spirit of Victorian popular Catholicism.
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
232
July 1852
The first Provincial Synod of the English Roman Catholic Church was held; the hierarchy had been restored two years previously.
3 November 1854
University College
, Ireland's first Catholic university, was officially opened at 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin.
Newman, John Henry. Apologia pro vita sua. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.
Newman, John Henry. Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman. Editor Mozley, Anne, Longmans, Green, 1891.
Newman, John Henry. “Prefatory Notice”. Newman Reader: Meditations and Devotions of the Late Cardinal Newman, 1907, edited by William P. Neville.
Newman, John Henry. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated. Pickering, 1873.
Newman, John Henry, John Keble, William Palmer, Richard Hurrell Froude, Edward Bouverie Pusey, and Isaac Williams. Tracts for the Times. Rivington; Parker.