Oxford Movement

Meanwhile the reader's focus is often on Mary Crookenden: her delicacy (or brittleness), her flocks of admirers, her relations with older family members, and the artistic talent which had led her while still a child...

Harriett remained committed to the Church of England throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological...

In 1848CFA met British novelist Charlotte Yonge and the leader of the Oxford Movement , John Keble .CFA 's husband believed that Keble endowed her with a sense of the magic, of the...

Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church , JHN began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters led them to suppose that the...

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...

CY was confirmed in the Church of England after several months of instruction from TractarianJohn Keble .

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...

The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland ; FS 's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement .

It was dedicated to John Keble , leader of the Oxford Movement , and contained, as well as the poems, questions for examination.The preface was written by Dr Walter Farquar Hook , who, according...

John Godley, who was a friend of Charlotte's brother Charles , was born in Ireland on 29 May 1814, most likely at Dublin. He was the son of an Irish landowner, whose family home...

Also a follower of the Oxford Movement , Alexander was rector of Termonamongan parish, Killeter, County Tyrone, from that year; he too was a poet.

AT 's mother, Margaret Mackail , was the only daughter of the painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones and moved in the highest circles both socially and culturally. She used to read to her children at breakfast...

Harriet was the daughter of Lord Wicklow . The young girls visited nearby schools, teaching Church catechism, and reading and praying with the less fortunate. Both women were greatly influenced in their youth by the...

She found the writing of this far harder than she had her first book. Earlier in the year she reported, I get on shamefully slow, even though she knew already exactly what she meant to...

JHN , Richard Hurrell Froude , Edward Bouverie Pusey , and others began anonymously publishing their series Tracts for the Times, as a statement of principles for the Tractarian , or Oxford Movement.