A Foreign and Wicked Institution

A Foreign and Wicked Institution

Author: Rene Kollar

Publisher: James Clarke & Company

Published: 2011-11-24

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 0227903110

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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.


The Gothic Ideology

The Gothic Ideology

Author: Diane Long Hoeveler

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2014-05-15

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1783160497

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The Gothic Ideology argues that in order to modernize and secularize, the British Protestant imaginary needed an 'other' against which it could define itself as a culture and a nation with distinct boundaries. The 'Gothic ideology' is identified as an intense religious anxiety, produced by the aftershocks of the Protestant reformation, the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and the dynastic upheavals produced by both events in England, Germany, and France, and was played out in hundreds of Gothic texts published throughout Europe between the mid-eighteenth century and 1880. This book is the first to read the Gothic ideology through the historical context of both King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries and the extensive French anti-clerical and pornographic works that were well-known to Horace Walpole and Matthew Lewis. The book argues that Gothic was thoroughly invested in a crude form of anti-Catholicism that fed lower class prejudices against the passage of a variety of Catholic Relief Acts that had been pending in Parliament since 1788 and finally passed in 1829.


St. Mary's Convent: Or, Chapters in the Life of a Nun

St. Mary's Convent: Or, Chapters in the Life of a Nun

Author: Jeanie Selina Dammast

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781016832571

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