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An examination of the development of Roman Catholic and Anglican female religious orders in 19th-century Britain, and the prejudices that they encountered.
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.
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.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 318
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
24 November 2011
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780227679920
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / History, History of religion
This book presents a facet of Victorian life which, like the convents themselves, is often terra incognita; it opens a window on a commonly overlooked aspect of the social and religious life of the Victorian era.
— Mary C. Treacy, Women's History Magazine, Issue 70, Summer 2012
...[A foreign and Wicked Institution? The Campaign Against Convents in Victorian England] is a helpful contribution to learning, and discloses some fine scholarly judgements...
— Edward Norman
...There are some nuggets of information which interest or amuse or both...
— Michael Tait
...Readers will benefit from Kollar's wide reading and his wealth of knowledge of printed archival sources as well as nineteenth-century literature. There is much in these essays that is important for those who are interested in understanding the Victorians, the depths of anti-Catholicism and anti-Tractarianism and how women religious were seen as threatening the status quo. This volume is a welcome addition to the history of women religious...
— Carmen M. Mangion
— Mary C. Treacy, Women's History Magazine, Issue 70, Summer 2012
...[A foreign and Wicked Institution? The Campaign Against Convents in Victorian England] is a helpful contribution to learning, and discloses some fine scholarly judgements...
— Edward Norman
...There are some nuggets of information which interest or amuse or both...
— Michael Tait
...Readers will benefit from Kollar's wide reading and his wealth of knowledge of printed archival sources as well as nineteenth-century literature. There is much in these essays that is important for those who are interested in understanding the Victorians, the depths of anti-Catholicism and anti-Tractarianism and how women religious were seen as threatening the status quo. This volume is a welcome addition to the history of women religious...
— Carmen M. Mangion
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