| Description |
viii, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : maps ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Mary Ward in historical context -- 2. Women in the Reformation period -- 3. Mary Ward: beginnings -- 4. Significant initiatives of Catholic women in Europe -- 5. Mary Ward: early attempts to establish the Institute -- 6. Period of expansion of the Institute -- 9. Further Roman developments -- 10. Last years of Mary Ward and the aftermath (1631-1645) -- 11. Mary Ward's spirituality -- 12. Some cultural aspects of the Reformation period -- 14. An incomparable woman -- Mary Ward: time line -- Afterword: 'Galloping girls' -- Appendices -- 1. Some significant people in Mary Ward's lifetime (1585-1645) -- 2. Significant events from the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth centuries -- 3. The Verity speech -- 4. Bull of suppression of the Intsitute -- 5. Declaration of Mary Ward from the Anger Prison -- 6. Notes on the sources about the life of Mary Ward |
| Summary |
"This book tells the story of the Yorkshire woman, Mary Ward, who lived in the Elizabethan age and whose life reflected the courage, wit and creativity of the times. Mary and her companions educated girls when most were denied this advantage. Her founding of schools for girls across Europe was considered 'a dangerous innovation'. She endured opposition and the suppression of the INstitute that she founded in a spirit of faith and trust in God as a joyful, English woman of the seventeenth century."--BACK COVER |
| Analysis |
Nuns - England - Biography |
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Ward, Mary, 1585-1645 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-298) and index |
| Subject |
Ward, Mary, 1585-1645.
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Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary -- Biography.
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Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary -- History.
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Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Catholic women -- England -- Biography.
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Loreto Nuns
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Nuns -- England -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
1876295287 |
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