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.
John Keble
Standard Name: Keble, John
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Cecil Frances Alexander | In 1848CFA
met British novelist Charlotte Yonge
and the leader of the Oxford Movement
, John Keble
. |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | CY
was confirmed in the Church of England
after several months of instruction from TractarianJohn Keble
. Christabel Coleridge wrongly gave the year as 1837, and has been followed by some other sources. Coleridge, Christabel. Charlotte Mary Yonge: Her Life and Letters. Macmillan and Co., 1903. 144 Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983. 18: 312 Battiscombe, Georgina, and E. M. Delafield. Charlotte Mary Yonge: The Story of an Uneventful Life. Constable and Company, 1943. 53-4 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | 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... |
death | Charlotte Yonge | She was buried at the foot of John Keble
's memorial cross in Otterbourne churchyard (despite a suggestion that she should be buried beside Jane Austen
in Winchester Cathedral). Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research, 1983. 18: 322 |
Dedications | Cecil Frances Alexander | It was dedicated to John Keble
, leader of the Oxford Movement
, and contained, as well as the poems, questions for examination. 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. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Smythies | Charlotte Clarke
, her cousin on her father's side, married Oxford movement theologian and writer John Keble
. Summers, Montague. “Mrs. Gordon Smythies”. Modern Language Notes, Vol. 60 , No. 6, June 1945, pp. 359-64. 359-60 |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Yonge | |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Yonge | Keble
's fame rested not only on the Oxford Movement, which he launched in 1833, but also on his religious poetry in The Christian Year, 1827 (based, like later works by CY
... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Sewell | The leaders she met included John Keble
, John Henry Newman
, and Henry Wilberforce
; she also met Charlotte Yonge
. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907. 62-3 It was soon after this meeting that Newman, Wilberforce, and Edward Bellasis
all joined the Catholic Church
. |
Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Power Cobbe | Among the personal duties that the book identifies, is that of maintaining your own lawful freedom Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis, 1881. 83 Cobbe, Frances Power. The Duties of Women. G. H. Ellis, 1881. 84 |
Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | John Keble
read this book when he was dying, and reading was hard for him. Hayter, Alethea. Charlotte Yonge. Northcote House, 1996. 1 |
Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | This poem was highly regarded by Bessie Rayner Parkes
. Critic Gill Gregory
reads it as a powerful critique of Keble
's authoritative voice and an unsettling of key Tractarian tenets, stemming from AP
's revisionary poetics. Gregory, Gill. The Life and Work of Adelaide Proctor. Ashgate, 1998. 85 |
Literary responses | Adelaide Procter | The high opinions of many of AP
's contemporaries did not carry over into later assessments, although Eric Robertson
in his English Poetesses, 1883, praised her for having reached the toiling busy thousands who... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Yonge | Her vindication of unmarried women drawing intellectual and social authority from their relationship with the Church of England
brings to mind Mary Astell
. She appears to have learned from women writers like Sarah Trimmer |
Textual Production | Cecil Frances Alexander | Among the books published this year by Cecil Frances Humphreys
, later CFA
, was Hymns for Little Children with a preface by John Keble
; this contains the hymns with which her name is still associated. 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. |
Timeline
30 May 1827: John Keble anonymously published The Christian...
Writing climate item
30 May 1827
John Keble
anonymously published The Christian Year, a volume of sacred verse.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Keble, John. The Christian Year. Reprint, Gale Research, 1975, http://University of Guelph Library.
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14 July 1833: John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's...
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14 July 1833
John Keble
preached a sermon at St Mary's Church, High Street, Oxford (the University Church), on National Apostacy; it is viewed as the beginning of the Tractarian Movement.
Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.
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Texts
Alexander, Cecil Frances, and John Keble. Hymns for Little Children. J. Masters, 1848.
Keble, John. The Christian Year. Reprint, Gale Research, 1975, http://University of Guelph Library.
Newman, John Henry et al. Tracts for the Times. Rivington; Parker, 6 vols.