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Anglo-Catholicism came into wider circulation as an established theological position within the Anglican Communion in large part through the Oxford or Tractarian Movement, initially formed in the late 1820s and early 1830s by a group of scholars and clergy at the University of Oxford. Over the ensuing decades Anglo-Catholicism was promulgated by religious and laity alike, with significant contributions made by women writers, including Cecil Frances Alexander, Dora Greenwell, Maria Francesca Rossetti, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Adelaide Proctor, and Charlotte Yonge.
The Anglo-Catholic theological heritage officially dates to the establishment of the Anglican Church by Henry VIII (1509–1547) but the term “Anglo-Catholic” or “High Church” came to be closely associated with the Oxford Movement as a result of its effort to, as Geoffrey Rowell puts it, define and defend the Church of England’s historical and doctrinal continuity with Catholicism, and to clarify Anglican...
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Lamb, R. (2021). Anglo-Catholicism. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_208-1
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