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Shadows and Images
Contributor(s): Trevor, Meriol (Author)
ISBN: 1586176021     ISBN-13: 9781586176020
Publisher: Ignatius Press
OUR PRICE:   $14.36  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: January 2012
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Religious - Christian - General
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2011930699
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.3" W x 8.02" (0.85 lbs) 275 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
 
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Publisher Description:
One of the major characters in this novel of a Protestant young woman, and the Roman Catholic she marries, is the inspiring figure of Blessed John Cardinal Newman. In the story of Clem and Augustine, their courtship and marriage, and Clem's conversion to her husband's faith, the reader sees the vital, influential, and holy Cardinal through the eyes of friends. Like Newman, the fictional character Clem was born in the Protestant faith, and their acquaintance begins before he or she becomes a Roman Catholic. The novel charts their ongoing friendship as it spans many years during which pivotal historical influences, such as the Industrial Revolution and the Oxford Movement, are shaping Victorian England. Many important events, personages, and ideas in the life of Newman appear in the story--his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, his differences with Cardinal Manning, his work in the Birmingham Oratory, and his being made a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. The author, a renowned biographer of Newman, used Newman's actual correspondence as the basis for his parts in the dialogue.

Contributor Bio(s): Trevor, Meriol: -

Meriol Trevor (1919- 2000) was educated at St. Hugh's College, Oxford. One of the most prolific Catholic writers of the twentieth century, she wrote more than thirty novels, for both adults and children, and several major biographies. She is best known for her comprehensive biography of Cardinal John Henry Newman published in the early sixties. In 1967, she was elected a fellow of the Royal Society for Literature in England.