They found that John Henry Newman
's teetering on the brink of the Catholic church was well known to people they met in France, and eager efforts were made at their conversion. Harriett found these...
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Muriel Spark
MS
edited with Derek StanfordLetters of John Henry Newman
: A Selection (he dealing with Newman as an Anglican, she with Newman as a Catholic).
Rees, David. Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Ian McEwan, A Bibliography of their First Editions. Colophon Press.
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM
followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...
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Caroline Clive
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...
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Anne Mozley
AM
also edited the Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman
during his life in the English Church, published in 1890, which went through many further editions. John Wordsworth says that, while editing her...
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Georgiana Fullerton
In 1888 Pauline Craven
(author of the novels Anne Severin and Eliane, both translated into English by Fullerton) published a biography of GF
in French. Its subsequent translation and revision by Henry James Coleridge
Textual Features
Emma Jane Worboise
Arnold represented a fascinating subject for a biographer interested in the shades of religious faith and their interaction with secular politics. Worboise relates his experiences as a member of the Senate of the new London University
Residence
Harriett Mozley
This was the first of several moves made under the patronage of the eldest son, John Henry Newman
, whose Oxford college, Oriel, was able to offer them a succession of tenancies. In October that...
Reception
Mary Augusta Ward
Understanding the difficulties of dealing in detail with Victorian religious perplexity, MAW
herself placed the book in the tradition of religious or social propaganda
Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers.
AM
, publishing from the late 1830s to the final decade of the century, remained always anonymous and worked mostly in marginal genres, with the result that she is little known and several of her...
Author summary
Harriett Mozley
HM
's writings, published over about a decade of the mid-nineteenth century, are deeply involved with the sectarian struggles within the Church of England
to which her brother, later Cardinal Newman
, largely contributed. She...
politics
Harriett Mozley
HM
was one of those for whom religion and politics were hardly distinguishable. In 1832, during the time leading up to the Reform Bill, she sounds like a Tory in politics as she observes with...
Occupation
James Anthony Froude
JAF
initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford
, joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman
with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon.
Literary responses
Sarah Flower Adams
It achieved international recognition and became a favourite of Queen Victoria
, King Edward VII
, and United States president William McKinley
. Along with Cardinal John Henry Newman
's Lead Kindly Light, it...
Timeline
Later 1841: Father Dominic Barberi arrived in England...
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Later 1841
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...
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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...
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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.
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July 1852: The first Provincial Synod of the English...
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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...
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3 November 1854
University College
, Ireland's first Catholic university, was officially opened at 86 St Stephen's Green, Dublin.
January 1858: The first issue of The Atlantis was published,...