John Keble

Standard Name: Keble, John

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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., 1903. 144 Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983. 18: 312 Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943. 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...
Cultural formation	Cecil Frances Alexander	In 1848CFA met British novelist Charlotte Yonge and the leader of the Oxford Movement , John Keble . Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. CFA 's husband believed that Keble endowed her with a sense of the magic, of the...
death	Charlotte Yonge	She was buried at the foot of John Keble 's memorial cross in Otterbourne churchyard (despite a suggestion that she should be buried beside Jane Austen in Winchester Cathedral). Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983. 18: 322
Dedications	Cecil Frances Alexander	It was dedicated to John Keble , leader of the Oxford Movement , and contained, as well as the poems, questions for examination. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. The preface was written by Dr Walter Farquar Hook , who, according...
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriet Smythies	Charlotte Clarke , her cousin on her father's side, married Oxford movement theologian and writer John Keble . Summers, Montague. “Mrs. Gordon Smythies”. Modern Language Notes, Vol. 60 , No. 6, June 1945, pp. 359-64. 359-60
Friends, Associates	Charlotte Yonge	CY was devastated when both John Keble and his wife died, within forty days of each other. Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. Macmillan and Co., 1903. 221-2
Friends, Associates	Charlotte Yonge	Keble 's fame rested not only on the Oxford Movement, which he launched in 1833, but also on his religious poetry in The Christian Year, 1827 (based, like later works by CY ...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Sewell	The leaders she met included John Keble , John Henry Newman , and Henry Wilberforce ; she also met Charlotte Yonge . Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907. 62-3 It was soon after this meeting that Newman, Wilberforce, and Edward Bellasis all joined the Catholic Church .
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Power Cobbe	Among the personal duties that the book identifies, is that of maintaining your own lawful freedom Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis, 1881. 83 as the indispensable condition of the whole moral life. Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis, 1881. 84 But freedom must be exercised properly, and Cobbe...
Literary responses	Charlotte Yonge	John Keble read this book when he was dying, and reading was hard for him. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996. 1
Literary responses	Adelaide Procter	This poem was highly regarded by Bessie Rayner Parkes . Critic Gill Gregory reads it as a powerful critique of Keble 's authoritative voice and an unsettling of key Tractarian tenets, stemming from AP 's revisionary poetics. Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate, 1998. 85
Literary responses	Adelaide Procter	The high opinions of many of AP 's contemporaries did not carry over into later assessments, although Eric Robertson in his English Poetesses, 1883, praised her for having reached the toiling busy thousands who...
Textual Features	Charlotte Yonge	Her vindication of unmarried women drawing intellectual and social authority from their relationship with the Church of England brings to mind Mary Astell . She appears to have learned from women writers like Sarah Trimmer
Textual Production	Cecil Frances Alexander	Among the books published this year by Cecil Frances Humphreys , later CFA , was Hymns for Little Children with a preface by John Keble ; this contains the hymns with which her name is still associated. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

Timeline

30 May 1827

John Keble anonymously published The Christian Year, a volume of sacred verse.

Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

Keble, John. The Christian Year. Reprint, Gale Research, 1975, http://University of Guelph Library.

14 July 1833

John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's Church, High Street, Oxford (the University Church), on National Apostacy; it is viewed as the beginning of the Tractarian Movement.

Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.

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Texts

Alexander, Cecil Frances, and John Keble. Hymns for Little Children. J. Masters, 1848.