A foreign and wicked institution?
Subtitle: the campaign against convents in Victorian England
By: Rene Kollar
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781606083369
Subjects: Controversial literature; Church of England; Convents; Monasticism and religious orders for women; Sisterhoods; Nuns; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bishop William Ullathorne and his defense of the convents: the 1851 Bill for Parliamentary Inspection of the Convents; title: They walled up nuns, didn't they?: H. Rider Haggard's Montezuma's daughter and anti-Catholicism in Victorian England; title: Two lectures at Bath: The Rev. M. Hobart Seymour and Cardinal Nicholas Wiserman and the nunnery question; title: The myth and reality of Sr. Barbara Ubryk, the imprisoned nun of Cracow: English interpretations of a Victorian controversy; title: An American "escaped nun" on tour in England: Edith O'Gorman's critique of convent life; title: Those horrible iron cages: the sisters of the church and the care of orphans in  Late Victorian England; title: Flowers, pictures, and crosses: criticisms of Priscilla Lydia Sellon's care of young girls; title: Magdalenes and nuns: convent laundries in late Victorian England; title: Foreign and Catholic: a plea to Protestant parents on the dangers of convent education in Victorian England; title: A death in the family: Bishop Archibald Campbell Tait, the rights of parents, and Anglican sisterhoods in the diocese of London; title: The priest, the nun, and confession: an anti-Catholic sterotype and Anglican sisterhoods in Victorian England; title: Power and control over women in Victorian England: male opposition to sacramental confession in the Anglican Church; title: An Anglican sisterhood and auricular confession: a Popish practice in a Devonport sisterhood; title: Giacinto Achilli versus the Roman Catholic Church: morality, religion, and the court of public opinion in Victorian England.