qtd. in
Forward, Stephanie. “A Study in Yellow: Mona Caird’s ’The Yellow Drawing-Room’”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 295-07. 295
Martin Luther
Standard Name: Luther, Martin
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | St Leonard's emphasized intellectual, physical, and domestic development; girls were allowed the freedom of unsupervised daily walks. At this school Margaret learned to debate the merits of Erasmus
, Martin Luther
, and Sir Thomas More |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Basset | MB
's father, lawyer and scholar William Roper
, was unlike her mother's family in that he was interested in the reformed religion, in Luther
, and in the idea of translating the Bible into... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | He was a lawyer in his early twenties, with an interest in the teachings of Martin Luther
and in translations of the Bible into English which put him potentially at odds with his father-in-law. (He... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mona Caird | In MarriageMC
charged that the institution of marriage in its present form was a vexatious failure and its system a legalized injustice. |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Tyrwhit's collection of prayers is thought to date from the mid 1550s, and tradition suggests that it was written for the future Queen Elizabeth I
during her imprisonment by her sister Queen Mary
, but... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Tyrwhit's prayers bring together, in cheerful ecumenicity, the Bible, the old Roman Catholic
tradition of books of hours, and newer Lutheran
and humanist influence, grafting new thinking onto an age-old tradition of piety... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
| Literary Setting | Alethea Lewis | Here the gothic element is much strengthened. The story takes place before the time of Martin Luther
. Young girls are immured in a convent because of an older woman's envy of their beauty, and... |
| Literary Setting | Elizabeth Charles | The book was perhaps written to provide more interesting religious reading material than the texts usually allowed to Protestant children, which EC
elsewhere characterises (with the exception of the Bible) as dull. Charles, Elizabeth. Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan. T. Nelson; Lipincott, 1866. 5 |
| Author summary | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Elizabeth, Lady Tyrwhit
, a product of the Lutheran
Protestant movement which inspired the Court ladies of her (sixteenth-century) generation, was the author or compiler of a private book of prayers, with hymns and psalms... |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Charles | EC
was offered £40 by Andrew Cameron
, editor of the Scottish magazine Family Treasury, to write on Martin Luther
. When her work was published as a historical novel, its unexpected success taught... |
| Textual Features | Julia Pardoe | Earnest is faced with the choice between the love of the maiden and the love of the Muse. Pardoe, Julia. “The Poet of Prague”. Fraser’s Magazine, Vol. 2026 , 1845, pp. 106-15. 107 |
| Textual Features | Mary Augusta Ward | She described it as a vision of a Church of England
recreated from within, with a rebel, and not—as in Robert Elsmere—an exile, for a hero. Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers, 1918. 352 |
| Textual Features | Frances Arabella Rowden | An advertisement (dated at Iver in Buckinghamshire on 3 September 1820) Rowden, Frances Arabella. A Biographical Sketch of the Most Distinguished Writers of Ancient and Modern Times. 1829. 1829, iv |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Brilliana Lady Harley | It reflects her theological interests, containing—for instance—paraphrases from Calvin
's Institutes of the Christian Religion, from works by William Perkins
, and the sermons of the local vicar. Eales, Jacqueline. Puritans and Roundheads. Cambridge University Press, 1990. 25, 43, 49 |
Timeline
31 October 1517: Luther pinned his manifesto (Ninety-Five...
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31 October 1517
Luther
pinned his manifesto (Ninety-Five Theses) to the door of the castle church at Wittenberg in Germany. The theses were intended points for a university discussion which in the event never took place.
Garland, Henry, and Mary Garland, editors. The Oxford Companion to German Literature. 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 1997.
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.
Cameron, Jennifer. A Dangerous Innovator: Mary Ward (1585-1645). St Pauls Publications, 2000.
236
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “The World Took Sides”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 16, 11 Aug. 2016, pp. 25-7. 20 September 1523: Argula von Grumbach, a Bavarian whom many...
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20 September 1523
Argula von Grumbach
, a Bavarian whom many call the earliest Protestant woman writer, penned two polemical letters which were later published (one to the University of Ingolstadt
and one to Duke William IV of Bavaria
1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...
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1527
A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer
, wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus
, whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Archives”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 62-7.
63-7
30 March 1533: On Passion Sunday, two weeks before Easter,...
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30 March 1533
On Passion Sunday, two weeks before Easter, Thomas Cranmer
, a churchman interested in the new ideas of Martin Luther
, was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury.
Bossy, John. “The Skull from Outer Space”. London Review of Books, 20 Feb. 2003, pp. 29-30.
29
21 July 1542: Pope Paul III revived the medieval inquisition...
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21 July 1542
Pope Paul III
revived the medieval inquisition to counter the threat posed to Roman Catholicism
by the new Protestant thinking of Martin Luther
and John Calvin
.
Cristianità. http://www.alleanzacattolica.org/.
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
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