Mary the mother of Jesus

Standard Name: Mary,, the mother of Jesus

Used Form: Virgin Mary

Connections

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Dedications	Mary Angela Dickens	In a move that reflected her turn to Catholicism , MAD published a devotional volume, Sanctuary, dedicated to MaryThe Mother of Jesus and featuring a preface by Charles Galton , a Jesuit priest. Dickens, Mary Angela, and Father Charles S. J. Galton. Sanctuary. R & T Washbourne, 1916, xii, 137 pp. iii, v
Education	Marina Warner	Life in the convent was quite regimented: we were all marched in line and we all sang songs together and we learned everything by heart. qtd. in Zabus, Chantal et al. “Spinning a Yarn with Marina Warner”. Kunapipi, Vol. 16 , No. 1, Dangaroo Press, 1994, pp. 519-29. 519 Devotion to Mary flourished among the children. MW remained...
Education	Marina Warner	Here, she learned the practices of examining her conscience and meditating on holy pictures, which have been significant in her life ever since. Williams, Elaine. “Marina Warner”. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World, edited by Sian Griffiths, Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 259-67. 261 At both her convent schools devotion to the Virgin Mary was...
Intertextuality and Influence	Flora Annie Steel	FAS brackets her extremely touching story between two overt comparisons of Indian with British culture, not to the latter's advantage. No matter how barbarous the marriage customs of India, FAS writes that Uma confronts...
Intertextuality and Influence	Christina Rossetti	In what some consider her most ambitious religious work, she continues here her meditations on the female characters of the Bible. The text envisions the moment at which Eve , the Virgin Mary ...
Intertextuality and Influence	Felicia Hemans	Scenes and Hymns of Life includes Prisoners' Evening Service, which imagines the last days of two prisoners awaiting execution during the French Revolution, and affectingly described by Helen Maria Williams . qtd. in Duquette, Natasha Aleksiuk. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Approach to Biblical Interpretation. Pickwick Publications, 2016. 167n3 Even...
Occupation	Christina Rossetti	The second title uses the Latin version of the words which the Virgin Mary spoke to the angel of the Annunciation, in English Behold the handmaid of the Lord!CR sat also as model for...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Bathurst	The collection begins with Sarah, wife of Abraham, and moves on through twenty-one listings of renowned Bathurst, Elizabeth. The Sayings of Women. Andrew Sowle, 1683. 13 Old Testament women. Each is introduced with the statement: We find . . . . Bathurst, Elizabeth. The Sayings of Women. Andrew Sowle, 1683. passim EB 's...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Jennings	A number of poems in this volume express sympathy with the losses and failures of humanity, or address the passage of time. Several concern religious observance: among these are two poems both bearing the title...
Textual Features	Monica Furlong	MF herself supplies an introduction explaining the book's intention to address the narrower question of women's ordination and the broader question of the full evaluation of women within the Christian community. Furlong, Monica. Feminine in the Church. SPCK, 1984. 1 She deals briefly...
Textual Production	Elizabeth Charles	Some of these titles are Early Christian Missions of Ireland, Scotland and England (1893), Attila and his Conquerors (1894), Ecce Ancilla Domini, Mary the Mother of our Lord : Studies in the Christian Ideal of...
Textual Production	Anna Brownell Jameson	ABJ examined the life of the Virgin Mary in Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts, the third volume of her series Sacred and Legendary Art. Johnston, Judith. Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters. Scolar Press, 1997. 238
Textual Production	Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland	Elizabeth Cary Falkland wrote verse lives of Mary Magdalen , Saint Agnes , and St Elizabeth of Portugal , and many poems about the Virgin Mary and various saints. Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75. 213-14
Textual Production	Kate O'Brien	The title comes from a Mayday hymn to Mary : the allusion to prayer is both nostalgic and ironical. Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987. 78
Textual Production	Marina Warner	MW published her landmark study of the figure of the Virgin Mary as a model for women: Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary. Moseley, Merritt, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 194. Gale Research, 1998. 194: 279, 284

Timeline

About 1450

The extant manuscript was transcribed of Dame Eleanor Hull 's translation of a French commentary and treatise on the Latin text of the Seven Penitential Psalms.

Barratt, Alexandra, editor. Women’s Writing in Middle English. Longman, 1992.

219-20, 17, xiii, 223, 2

8 December 1635

Queen Henrietta Maria 's personal Roman Catholic chapel, designed by Inigo Jones , opened on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary .

Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.

31, 28-9

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