Irish Recollections

Informationen zum Autor Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (nee Brown) (1790-1846) was an English evangelical writer and follower of the playwright and religious writer Hannah More. She was well known in her lifetime for her novels and religious tracts. Patrick Maume is a researcher with the Dictionary of Irish Biography. Klappentext In this abridged version of the second edition of "Personal Recollections (1847)! Tonna gives a vivid account of her time in Ireland! of the violent activities of the Rockite movement in the mid- 1820s in Kilkenny-Tipperary. and of the apocalyptic ultra-Evangelical "siege mentality" during the Tithe War and the run-up to Catholic Emancipation. It is also a valuable memoir of her religious and literary development. Zusammenfassung This volume is an abridged edition of Tonna's personal recollections! which includes her memoir of visiting Ireland in the mid-1820s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by Patrick Maume; Letter V Ireland; Letter VI Religious progress; Letter VII Kilkenny; Letter VIII The workings of Popery; Letter IX The dumb boy; Letter X England; Letter XI Sandhurst; Letter XII Separation; Letter XIII National apostacy; Letter XIV Employment; Letter XV Darkness and light; Letter XVI A removal; Letter XVII Ireland.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
• Assisted by: Patrick Maume (Editor)
• Publisher: University College of Dublin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2004
• EAN: 9781904558101
• ISBN: 978-1-904558-10-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Classics of Irish History; Classics of Irish History
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies