Her last public appearance, in company with the Duke of Norfolk (premier Catholic peer of Britain), took place at the Papal Jubilee, 8 January 1888, when Pope Leo XIII
granted her an audience.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
256
death
Mary Howitt
MH
died of bronchitis in Rome, aged eighty-eight, three weeks after her audience with Pope Leo XIII
.
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
222, 225
Education
Frances Eleanor Trollope
At some point, she received a thorough education in Italian. According to her niece Muriel Trollope
, she spoke it fluently.
Trollope, Muriel. “What I Was Told”. Trollopian, Vol.
2
, No. 4, Mar. 1948, pp. 223-35.
228
Pope Leo XIII
is said to have complimented her as the lady who...
Family and Intimate relationships
Jessie White Mario
By 1 December 1881 JWM
's husband, Alberto Mario
, was on trial in Rome for publishing an article in which he spoke against Pope Leo XIII
. Although he was sentenced to a term...
Timeline
20 February 1878: Following the death of Pius IX, Leo XIII...
National or international item
20 February 1878
Following the death of Pius IX
, Leo XIII
was elected Pope.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
444
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
314
13 September 1896: Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical Apostolicae...
Building item
13 September 1896
Pope Leo XIII
published his encyclical Apostolicae Curae, which formally rejected Anglican ordinations within the Roman Catholic Church
as absolutely null and utterly void.
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins, 1984, 3 vols.
Edwards 284
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins, 1984, 3 vols.
284
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.