Catherine Holland

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Standard Name: Holland, Catherine
Birth Name: Catherine Holland
A seventeenth-century woman who used the familiar letter as an instrument both for religious understanding and for taking control of her own life, CH is known as a convent autobiographer. She also wrote other texts, few of which have survived: translated biographies, religious analysis of various kinds, and perhaps poetry.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Lady Lucy Herbert
LLH met the novelist Jane Barker before she became a nun, and after entering the convent she became acquainted with the autobiographer Catherine Holland .
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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She was visited at her convent late in life...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Shirley
Latz also notes Shirley's shaping of the later Augustinian tradition which informed the writings of Winefrid Thimelby and Catherine Holland .
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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Occupation Elizabeth Shirley
The seven included a lay sister.
Morris, John, editor. The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers. Gregg International Publishers, 1970.
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The move was made at a time of fears that young Englishwomen might cease choosing Louvain in face of competition from other religious houses. One of them...
Occupation Lady Lucy Herbert
She liked the Bruges convent because she had no friends or relations there and because she approved the simplicity of its way of life. Her family disliked the idea of her becoming a nun, and...
Textual Features Georgiana Fullerton
Constance Sherwood is represented as the autobiography of its eponymous protagonist, an English gentlewoman living during the reign of Queen Elizabeth . A devout Roman Catholic, Constance reports the persecutions of the English Reformation, although...

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Texts

Holland, Catherine. Autobiography. 1664.