“Jane will be useful, and because useful, happy”: An Elite New England Family Confronts Conversion in the 1850s
When Jane Minot Sedgwick II converted to Catholicism in 1853, at the height of U.S. anti-Catholic sentiment, her family members were generally accepting, despite being New England Unitarians with a dim view of Catholicism. They accepted her conversion because they thought it would provide Jane with...
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US catholic historian
Year: 2014, Volume: 32, Issue: 2, Pages: 29-49 |
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