Winefrid Thimelby

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Standard Name: Thimelby, Winefrid
Birth Name: Winefrid Thimelby
Though the focus of her life was religion, the seventeenth-century WT expressed in several genres an urge to write: pious meditations, lively familiar letters, and in all probability a long sequence of the annals of her convent, a form of women's history. She was well versed in the theology of St Augustine and St Bernard of Clairvaux , and although living and writing at a time of Jansenism, she stresses the incarnational, the divine immanence within human nature.
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Catherine Holland
CH (now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism .
It...
Family and Intimate relationships Gertrude Thimelby
Two of GT 's sisters-in-law, Winefrid Thimelby and Katherine Aston , were leading writers among the many in this remarkable group of relatives.
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Shirley
Latz also notes Shirley's shaping of the later Augustinian tradition which informed the writings of Winefrid Thimelby and Catherine Holland .
Latz, Dorothy L., editor. “Neglected Writings by Recusant Women”. Neglected English Literature: Recusant Writings of the 16th-17th Centuries, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, 1997.
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Literary responses Gertrude Thimelby
Since then GT has been included in anthologies such as Betty Travitsky 's The Paradise of Women, 1989, and Female and Male Voices in Early Modern England, edited by Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott
Occupation Elizabeth Shirley
The seven included a lay sister.
Morris, John, editor. The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers. Gregg International Publishers, 1970.
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The move was made at a time of fears that young Englishwomen might cease choosing Louvain in face of competition from other religious houses. One of them...
Residence Gertrude Thimelby
After more than a decade of widowhood, GT entered the convent of her sister-in-law Winefrid Thimelby : St Monica's at Louvain (now in Belgium).
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.
Morris, John, editor. The Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers. Gregg International Publishers, 1970.
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Textual Features Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Just as her seventh book, Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Second Century, made use of the writings of Clement of Alexandria , so this one takes St Bernard (a correspondent of Hildegarde of Bingen
Textual Features Georgiana Fullerton
Constance Sherwood is represented as the autobiography of its eponymous protagonist, an English gentlewoman living during the reign of Queen Elizabeth . A devout Roman Catholic, Constance reports the persecutions of the English Reformation, although...

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Texts

Thimelby, Winefrid. The Chronicle of the English Augustinian Canonesses Regular of the Lateran, at St. Monica’s in Louvain. Editor Hamilton, Adam, Sands, 1906, 2 vols.
Thimelby, Winefrid. Tixall Letters. Editor Clifford, Arthur, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, 2 vols.