Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Winefrid Thimelby
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Standard Name: Thimelby, Winefrid
Birth Name: Winefrid Thimelby
Though the focus of her life was religion, the seventeenth-century WT
expressed in several genres an urge to write: pious meditations, lively familiar letters, and in all probability a long sequence of the annals of her convent, a form of women's history. She was well versed in the theology of St Augustine
and St Bernard of Clairvaux
, and although living and writing at a time of Jansenism, she stresses the incarnational, the divine immanence within human nature.
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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(now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's
in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism
.
It...
Family and Intimate relationships
Gertrude Thimelby
Two of GT
's sisters-in-law, Winefrid Thimelby
and Katherine Aston
, were leading writers among the many in this remarkable group of relatives.
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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Literary responses
Gertrude Thimelby
Since then GT
has been included in anthologies such as Betty Travitsky
's The Paradise of Women, 1989, and Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England, edited by Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott
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...
Residence
Gertrude Thimelby
After more than a decade of widowhood, GT
entered the convent of her sister-in-law Winefrid Thimelby
: St Monica's
at Louvain (now in Belgium).
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.
Morris, John, editor. The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers. Gregg International Publishers, 1970.
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
Thimelby, Winefrid. The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran, at St. Monica’s in Louvain. Editor Hamilton, Adam, Sands, 1906, 2 vols.