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DRANE, AUGUSTA THEODOSIA (1823-1894)

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

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