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AUGUSTA THEODOSIA DRANE (1823-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 546 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTA
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THEODOSIA DRANE (1823-1894)
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English writer, was born at Bromley, near Bow, on the 29th of December 1823 . Brought up in the
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Anglican creed, she fell under the influence of Tractarian teaching at
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Torquay; and joined the
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Roman Catholic Church in 185o . She wrote, and published anonymously, an essay questioning the Morality of Tractarianisin, which was attributed to John Henry Newman . In 1852, after a prolonged stay in Rome, she joined the third order of St Dominic, to which she belonged for over
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forty years . She was prioress (1872—1881) of the Stone convent in
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Staffordshire, where she died on the 29th of
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April 1894 . Her chief
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works in
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prose and verse are: The
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History of Saint Dominic (1857; enlarged edition, 1891); The
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Life of St Catherine of
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Siena (188o; 2nd ed., 1899); Christian
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Schools and Scholars (1867); The Knights of St John (1858); Songs in the
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Night (1876); and the Three Chancellors (1859), a sketch of the lives of William of Wykeham, William of Waynflete and
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Sir Thomas More . A
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complete list of her writings is given in the Memoir of
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Mother Francis Raphael, O.S.D.,
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Augusta
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Theodosia Drane, edited by B . Wilberforce, O.P . (
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London, 1895) .

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