Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols.
1: 112-13, 188
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Literary Setting | Charlotte Dacre | This dedication was a manifesto of allegiance not to feminine terror but to the full-blown masculine horror Gothic. |
Occupation | Mary Ward | Her intention was to join the Poor Clares
at St Omer as a lay sister, a position which would mean begging in the streets and countryside for the Order, often sleeping away from the convent... |
Occupation | Mary Ward | At this date only Brussels had a foundation expressly for Englishwomen. Having sought advice and received approval from Jesuits, MW
set out in pursuit of patrons. She was determined that her convent should not fall... |
politics | Mary Ward | MW
wanted her women to be a community, but not to be enclosed. They were to be teachers and charitable workers; her love of the poor and self-identification with them was to be recorded on... |
Residence | Mary Ward | MW
spent these years at St Omer and at Gravelines in France, initially as one of the Order of Poor Clares
. Chambers, Mary Catharine Elizabeth. The Life of Mary Ward (1585-1645). Editor Coleridge, Henry James, Burns and Oates, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 112-13, 188 |
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