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Book The Gift of Mary Ward

Download or read book The Gift of Mary Ward written by Christine Elizabeth Burke and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mary Ward  First Sister of Feminism

Download or read book Mary Ward First Sister of Feminism written by Sydney Thorne and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little-known story of the woman who walked 1,500 miles to Rome to challenge the pope in 1621. Four centuries ago, an Englishwoman completed an astonishing walk to Rome. A Catholic, Mary Ward had already defied the authorities in her native country. In 1621 she walked across Europe to ask the Pope to allow her to set up schools for girls. “There is no such difference between men and women that women may not do great things,” she said. But Mary’s vision of equality between men and women angered the Church, and the pope threw her into prison. Her story is not only fascinating in its own right—it also shines a refreshingly new light on the Tudor/Stuart era. Mary’s uncles are the Gunpowder Plotters. Her sponsors are archdukes, prince-archbishops, and the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. In Rome she spars with Pope Urban VIII and the Roman Inquisition, just as they are also dealing with the troublemaker Galileo. As the story sweeps from Yorkshire to Rome, from Vienna and Munich to Prague, and back to England, we see Mary dodging pirates in the Channel, witch hunts in Germany, and the plague in Italy. We see travelers crossing the Alps, and prisoners smuggling out letters written in invisible lemon juice. Ranging from the resplendent courts in Brussels and Munich to the siege of York in the English Civil War, this biography is a remarkable portrait of seventeenth-century European life.

Book It Wasn t All Dancing

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  • Author : Mary Ward Brown
  • Publisher : University Alabama Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 166 pages

Download or read book It Wasn t All Dancing written by Mary Ward Brown and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All but one of the stories are set in Alabama. They deal with dramatic turning points in the lives of people who happen to be southerners, many juxtaposed between Old South sensibility and manners and New South modernity and expectations. Among these characters is a new widow uncomforted by well-meaning, proselytizing Christians; a middle-aged waitress in love with the town "catch"; a bedridden belle dependent upon her black nurse; a "special" young man in a newspaper shop; a young faculty wife who attempts generosity with a lower-class neighbor; and a lawyer caught in the dilemma of race issues."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Book A Match for Mary Bennet

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  • Author : Eucharista Ward
  • Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
  • Release : 2009-10-01
  • ISBN : 1402245319
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book A Match for Mary Bennet written by Eucharista Ward and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and inspirational Pride and Prejudice sequel that will resonate with all readers who can relate to Mary Bennet's determination to live according to God's wishes Written by a Franciscan nun, this is a sympathetic tale of the middle Bennet sister from Pride and Prejudice. Pious Mary Bennet tries to do her duty in the world as she thinks God envisions it. Initially believing (mistakenly) that her sister Elizabeth married well only in order to provide for her sisters, Mary is happy to be relieved of the obligation to marry at all so that she can continue her faithful works. But she begins to have second thoughts after further studying marriage through her sisters' experiences as well as spending time with two young men. One is a splendid young buck whose determined courtship must have ulterior motives; the other is a kindly, serious young clergyman whose friendship Mary values more and more. One day she realizes that God very much made man and woman to be together...but which is the man for her?

Book Mary Ward

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  • Author : Sister Margaret Mary
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2001-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780860123170
  • Pages : 286 pages

Download or read book Mary Ward written by Sister Margaret Mary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first paperback edition of the standard biography of Mary Ward.Mary Ward founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the 17th Century, an order devoted to the education of women so they could play their part in the Church and the World. Her view and aims were revolutionary in their time and a whole of network of Catholic schools remain in place today run by members of Mary Ward`s order.Mary Ward was born in 1585. She listened to the call of God at a time when the Church was reluctant to accept that God would speak directly to a woman, and died in obscurity in 1645.At a time when the IBVM is, like many religious orders, struggling to redefine its purpose in the modern world, and at a time when Mary Ward may herself be canonised by the present Pope, this book is quite exceptionally important.

Book Behind Her Times

Download or read book Behind Her Times written by Judith Wilt and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind Her Times is the definitive study of an author who in celebrating one era helped usher in the next.

Book The Gift of Mary MacKillop

Download or read book The Gift of Mary MacKillop written by Colleen O'Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the perfect companion volume for getting to the heart of what made Mary MacKillop so extraordinary. Not only does Colleen O'Sullivan, herself a Josephite sister, explain why and how Mary became worthy of becoming Australia's first saint, but Lynne Muir offers exquisite calligraphy and historical illustrations to lift the reader into sharing Mary¿s sensibilities. The product of the two invites readers on their own reflective pilgrimage as they share Mary's story: that of a poor woman in a penal colony who rose against great odds through an unwavering faith to establish the Sisters of St Joseph whose fundamental legacy in education, social work and charity is legend here and overseas.

Book Tongues of Flame

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  • Author : Mary Ward Brown
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1987-08
  • ISBN : 9780671641573
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Tongues of Flame written by Mary Ward Brown and published by . This book was released on 1987-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These beautifully crafted stories depict the changing relationships between black and white southerners, the impact of the civil rights movement, and the emergence of the New South. Mary Ward Brown is a storyteller in the tradition of such powerful 20th-century writers as William Faulkner, Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty-writers who have explored and dramatized the tension between the inherited social structure of the South and its contemporary dissolution.

Book Mary Ward

Download or read book Mary Ward written by Henriette Peters and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Freedom  Justice and Sincerity

Download or read book Freedom Justice and Sincerity written by Christine Burke and published by Atf Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an inspiring story that has been muted over the past 400 years. For much of this time, Mary Ward's role in changing the place of women in the Church was suppressed by Church authorities with their own unshakeable version of what women could (or could not) achieve. This remarkable Englishwoman, who began her company of sisters in 1609-11, today has followers in large cities and remote villages, in schools, universities and parishes and in justice networks, retreat centres and welfare services on every continent. Yet this was a woman who was ridiculed and imprisoned for pursuing her basic belief that women could both be religious and work to build the faith of their neighbours. It was not until 1909 that the Catholic Church finally allowed her sisters to name her as founder of the Institute. Christine Burke's volume celebrates the life of a woman of great faith and insight - always loyal to the church, resourceful, courageous and determined, a woman who never gave up on her own truth. The author, Loreto Sister, Dr Christine Burke IBVM has taught theology in Australia for a number of years and is at present in a senior leadership position in her Congregation.

Book What I Believe 2

Download or read book What I Believe 2 written by Elizabeth Bottcher and published by Pearson Longman. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life of Mary Ward

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  • Author : Francis Aidan Gasquet
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2014-02
  • ISBN : 9781295761272
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Life of Mary Ward written by Francis Aidan Gasquet and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book The Life of Mary Ward  1585 1645

Download or read book The Life of Mary Ward 1585 1645 written by Mary Catherine Elizabeth Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sketches with the Microscope

Download or read book Sketches with the Microscope written by Mary Ward and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illusions and Ignorance

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  • Author : S. E. Ward
  • Publisher : Outskirts Press
  • Release : 2007-05-01
  • ISBN : 9781432705404
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Illusions and Ignorance written by S. E. Ward and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Bennet's again... This book is a romance which revisits the Bennet Family a few years after Pride and Prejudice. In it, Mary Bennet, is the key to all the action, just as Elizabeth was key to the action of Pride and Prejudice. Mary, who is under the impression that Elizabeth was married well only in order to provide for her sisters, relaxes in the happy thought that she will never have to marry. Mrs. Bennet refuses to accept such a future for her, and works to change her mind. Meanwhile, her observation of her older sister Jane's happy situation, even with the unmarried sister (Carolyn Bingley) living with them, convinces Mary that she could just as well live out her life with Elizabeth and Darcy. Carolyn's later marriage to Darcy's cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam, and Jane's rather obvious relief, give her second thoughts. Her study of marriage through her sisters' experiences continues to change her mind, as does her new appreciation of her parents' marriage and that of her Aunt Gardiner. In the end, circumstances settle the whole puzzle for her, quite to her satisfaction.

Book Mary Ward

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  • Author : Ida Friedericke Ghorres
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mary Ward written by Ida Friedericke Ghorres and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Literature of Love

Download or read book The Literature of Love written by Mary Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The Literature of Love is designed to introduce students to one of the central themes in literature. Focusing first on different types and aspects of love - physical, emotional, spiritual - it then offers a chronological coverage, aiming to illustrate ways in which attitudes to the representation of love in literature have evolved from Chaucer to the present time. Other sections of the book examine particular genres such as the love sonnet, the love letter and 'romantic' fiction; and the differing reception of this literature over time is also considered. The book includes extracts from a range of authors.