John Henry Newman

Since Tom had gone up to Oxford as an undergraduate in 1825, Anne had been hearing at second hand about his friends, men who in after-times were to influence their generation. It was in...

It was based on Newman 's Lives of the English Saints; Oldooman alludes to the generally disparaging view of old women as fussy and prudish.

It achieved international recognition and became a favourite of Queen Victoria , King Edward VII , and United States president William McKinley . Along with Cardinal John Henry Newman 's Lead Kindly Light, it...

HM 's brother John Henry (later famous as Cardinal Newman) said her first book had the fault of being too brilliant. It was read everywhere by both High and Low Church parties. Several...

It was recommended to James Martineau by Francis W. Newman , brother of the famous tractarian , as a revelation of a pure, tender, ardent spirit. It was reviewed alongside Francis Newman 's Theism...

Benjamin Jowett wrote to Cobbe to praise this book, but felt that it was too much indebted to Theodore Parker . Public respondents included her friend Francis Newman . The book was reviewed widely—at times...

JAF initially followed in his brother's footsteps at Oxford , joining the Oxford Movement, assisting John Henry Newman with his Lives of the English Saints, and taking orders as a Deacon.

HM was one of those for whom religion and politics were hardly distinguishable. In 1832, during the time leading up to the Reform Bill, she sounds like a Tory in politics as she observes with...

AM , publishing from the late 1830s to the final decade of the century, remained always anonymous and worked mostly in marginal genres, with the result that she is little known and several of her...

HM 's writings, published over about a decade of the mid-nineteenth century, are deeply involved with the sectarian struggles within the Church of England to which her brother, later Cardinal Newman , largely contributed. She...

Understanding the difficulties of dealing in detail with Victorian religious perplexity, MAW herself placed the book in the tradition of religious or social propaganda shared by Froude 's The Nemesis of Faith, Newman

This was the first of several moves made under the patronage of the eldest son, John Henry Newman , whose Oxford college, Oriel, was able to offer them a succession of tenancies. In October that...

Arnold represented a fascinating subject for a biographer interested in the shades of religious faith and their interaction with secular politics. Worboise relates his experiences as a member of the Senate of the new London University

CC anonymously published a satire on John Henry Newman and the Oxford Movement : Saint Oldooman, a myth of the nineteenth century, contained in a letter from the Bishop of Verulanum to the Lord Drayton...

More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...