Allies, Mary Helen Agnes (1852 - 1927)
| Short name | Allies, Mary Helen Agnes |
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| First name | Mary Helen Agnes |
| Birth name | Allies |
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| Date of birth | 1852 |
| Date of death | 1927 |
| Birth date Notes | 02-02-1852 |
| Death date Notes | 27-01-1927 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | London |
| Place of death | England |
| Lived in | England |
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| Religion / ideology | Catholic |
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| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
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| Place(s) of Residence | England |
Author of
| receptions | circulations | |
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| The Life of Pope Pius the seventh (1875) | 0 | 0 |
| Three Catholic reformers of the fifteenth century (1878) | 0 | 0 |
| History of the church in England : from the beginning of the Christian era to the accession of Henry VIII (1892) | 0 | 0 |
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The Heiress of Cronenstein
(1900)
is also a reception: is adaptation of Die Erbin von Cronenstein |
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-Circulations of Allies, Mary Helen Agnes, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Allies, Mary Helen Agnes, the person
For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.
| Title | Author | Date | Type |
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| Unknown maker, portrait of Mary Helen Agnes Allies, in The Catholic Encyclopedia and its Makers, 1917, pages 2–3 | 1917 | is portrait of |
cf.
- Rosemary Mitchell, ‘Allies, Mary Helen Agnes (1852–1927)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
emaOct10
died in St John's Wood.
Daughter of Thomas William Allies (1813–1903) and his wife, Eliza Hall, who were both converts to Roman Catholicism.
Historian and translator; author of religious / scholarly books on the history of the Catholic church
In the entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, her "Life of Pius" is still considered a "standard work", and the "History of the Church in England" is referred to as "a readable and vehemently Catholic account of the English church before 1603" offering "an original and striking piece of religious sociology"
Also contributed articles to the Catholic World and the Dublin Review
(cf. Rosemary Mitchell, ‘Allies, Mary Helen Agnes (1852–1927)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004)
Translator from Greek.