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The Virgin Mary was one of the most controversial figures in Victorian England, a powerful presence who embodied what many Victorians considered to be the errors of the Roman Catholic Church.1 These included pagan idolatry, superstition and wilful ignorance of the Bible, all of which were summed up in a single word: Mariolatry.
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George Mosse, The Image of Man: The Creation of Modern Masculinity (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 53.
Ronald Chapman, Father Faber (Westminster, Md.: Newman Press, 1961), p. 48.
Brenda Colloms, Charles Kingsley: The Lion of Eversley (London: Constable, New York: Barnes and Noble, 1975), p. 268.
Charles Kingsley, Yeast: A Problem (London: John W. Parker, 1851), p. 86.
Owen Chadwick, The Spirit of the Oxford Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 126.
Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1974), p. 85.
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Engelhardt, C.M. (2000). Victorian Masculinity and the Virgin Mary. In: Bradstock, A., Gill, S., Hogan, A., Morgan, S. (eds) Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230294165_4
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