Browne, Mary Bonaventure (c. 1615 - 1694~)
Last edited by Marie-Louise_Coolahan on June 18, 2025, 5:42 p.m.
| Short name | Browne, Mary Bonaventure |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/315680959/ |
| First name | Mary Bonaventure |
| Birth name | Browne |
| Married name | |
| Alternative name | Sr Mary Bonaventure |
| Date of birth | c. 1615 |
| Date of death | 1694~ |
| Death date Notes | VIAF states ca. 1685 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | Ireland |
| Place of death | Madrid |
| Lived in | Ireland , Spain |
| Place of residence notes |
| Mother | |
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| Father | |
| Children | |
| Religion / ideology | Catholic |
| Education | |
| Aristocratic title | - |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | Abbess (Poor Clare order) |
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| Memberships | |
| Place(s) of Residence | Ireland , Spain |
Author of
| receptions | circulations | |
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*Chronicle of Irish Poor Clares
(1672)
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0 | 0 |
| *Chronicle of the Irish Poor Clare nuns (1672) | 1 | 0 |
Editor of
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-Circulations of Browne, Mary Bonaventure, the person (for circulations of her works, see under each individual Work)
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Receptions of Browne, Mary Bonaventure, the person
For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.
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Helena Concannon, The Poor Clares in Ireland (AD 1629-AD 1929) (Dublin, Gill, 1929).
Celsus O'Brien, Poor Clares, Galway, 1642-1992 (Galway: Connacht Tribune, 1992).
Marie-Louise Coolahan, Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland (2010), chapter 2.
Branagh MacShane, Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1630-1700 (Woodbridge, 2022)
See also ODNB entry: https://doi-org.nuigalway.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/105827
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Years supposition Wikipedia (svd)
Browne professed as a Poor Clare nun (name in religion Sr Mary Bonaventure) at the Bethlehem convent in Ireland in 1632. She went into exile in Spain c.1653.
See bibliography below for further biographical details.