At Salvador in Brazil she finds an oppressive government reflected in the domestic oppression of wives and daughters. She notes the high numbers of monks and nuns (3,000 in the town), the power of the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
May Laffan
Commenting one last time on the state of Catholic
schools, Laffan calls them highly destructive and immoral. The most dreadful thing of all is that the boys of the Priest's schools, of the Jesuits
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Violence
Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale
The family home of Lady Nithsdale
, Terregles Castle near Dumfries, was broken into by an armed mob a hundred strong, led by Presbyterian ministers, looking for illicit Catholic priests or Jesuits
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
