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A foreign and wicked institution? : the campaign against convents in Victorian England / Rene Kollar.

By: Publisher: Cambridge, England : James Clarke & Co, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (318 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780227903117
  • 0227903110
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Foreign and wicked institution? : the campaign against convents in Victorian England.DDC classification:
  • 248.89430924 23
LOC classification:
  • BX5185 .K65 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Bishop William Ullathorne and His Defense of Convents: The 1851 Bill for Parliamentary Inspection of Convents ; 2. They Walled Up Nuns, Didn't They? H. Rider Haggard's Montezuma's Daughter and Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England ; 3. Two Lectures at Bath: The Rev. M. Hobart Seymour and Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman and the Nunnery Question ; 4. The Myth and Reality of Sr. Barbara Ubryk, the Imprisoned Nun of Cracow: English Interpretations of a Victorian Religious Controversy.
5. An American "Escaped Nun" on Tour in England: Edith O'Gorman's Critique of Convent Life 6. Those Horrible Iron Cages: The Sisters of the Church and the Care of Orphans in Late Victorian England ; 7. Flowers, Pictures, and Crosses: Criticisms of Priscilla Lydia Sellon's Care of Young Girls ; 8. Magdalenes and Nuns: Convent Laundries in Late Victorian England ; 9. Foreign and Catholic: A Plea to Protestant Parents on the Dangers of Convent Education in Victorian England.
10.A Death in the Family: Bishop Archibald Campbell Tait, the Rights of Parents, and Anglican Sisterhoods in the Diocese of London 11. The Priest, the Nun, and Confession: An Anti-Catholic Stereotype and Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian England ; 12. Power and Control over Women in Victorian England: Male Opposition to Sacramental Confession in the Anglican Church ; 13. An Anglican Sisterhood and Auricular Confession: A Popish Practice in a Devonport Sisterhood ; 14. Giacinto Achilli versus the Roman Catholic Church: Morality, Religion and the Court of Public Opinion in Victorian England.
Summary: This work explores the prejudice that existed against women in Victorian England who joined sisterhoods and worked in orphanages and in education and were committed to social work among the urban poor. The accomplishments of the nineteenth-century nuns and the opposition they overcame should serve as both an example and encouragement to all men and women committed to the Gospel.
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Front cover; Title page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Bishop William Ullathorne and His Defense of Convents: The 1851 Bill for Parliamentary Inspection of Convents ; 2. They Walled Up Nuns, Didn't They? H. Rider Haggard's Montezuma's Daughter and Anti-Catholicism in Victorian England ; 3. Two Lectures at Bath: The Rev. M. Hobart Seymour and Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman and the Nunnery Question ; 4. The Myth and Reality of Sr. Barbara Ubryk, the Imprisoned Nun of Cracow: English Interpretations of a Victorian Religious Controversy.

5. An American "Escaped Nun" on Tour in England: Edith O'Gorman's Critique of Convent Life 6. Those Horrible Iron Cages: The Sisters of the Church and the Care of Orphans in Late Victorian England ; 7. Flowers, Pictures, and Crosses: Criticisms of Priscilla Lydia Sellon's Care of Young Girls ; 8. Magdalenes and Nuns: Convent Laundries in Late Victorian England ; 9. Foreign and Catholic: A Plea to Protestant Parents on the Dangers of Convent Education in Victorian England.

10.A Death in the Family: Bishop Archibald Campbell Tait, the Rights of Parents, and Anglican Sisterhoods in the Diocese of London 11. The Priest, the Nun, and Confession: An Anti-Catholic Stereotype and Anglican Sisterhoods in Victorian England ; 12. Power and Control over Women in Victorian England: Male Opposition to Sacramental Confession in the Anglican Church ; 13. An Anglican Sisterhood and Auricular Confession: A Popish Practice in a Devonport Sisterhood ; 14. Giacinto Achilli versus the Roman Catholic Church: Morality, Religion and the Court of Public Opinion in Victorian England.

This work explores the prejudice that existed against women in Victorian England who joined sisterhoods and worked in orphanages and in education and were committed to social work among the urban poor. The accomplishments of the nineteenth-century nuns and the opposition they overcame should serve as both an example and encouragement to all men and women committed to the Gospel.

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