"Mission and Duties of Young Women": Charles White and the Promotion of Catholic Domesticity in Antebellum Baltimore
Born in Baltimore in 1807 and ordained in Paris in 1830, the Reverend Charles Ignatius White was a leading member of the Catholic press in antebellum America. White served as founder/editor of several important periodicals, including a weekly newspaper and a monthly literary journal. Neglected by sc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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American catholic studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 121, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-27 |
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| Summary: | Born in Baltimore in 1807 and ordained in Paris in 1830, the Reverend Charles Ignatius White was a leading member of the Catholic press in antebellum America. White served as founder/editor of several important periodicals, including a weekly newspaper and a monthly literary journal. Neglected by scholars, however, has been White's significant contribution to advancing a Catholic version of the ideology of domesticity. Most noteworthy in this regard was his book Mission and Duties of Young Women (1858), a translation of a popular advice book by the French author Charles Sainte-Foi. A review of White's literary output – as editor, writer, biographer, and translator – complicates and qualifies our understanding of the temporal, geographical, ethnic, and class origins of American Catholic domesticity, at least for antebellum Baltimore. Led by its native-born gentry of largely English stock, the Maryland Catholic community had traditionally accommodated itself more easily to mainstream American cultural values than did the predominantly working-class, immigrant Catholics in the urban North. Through his writings promoting a Catholic version of true womanhood, Charles White served as a mid-century bridge between an older culture, dominated by a native-born, Anglo-Catholic elite, and that of an emerging immigrant church in the nation's oldest archdiocese. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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