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Joseph Henry Shorthouse

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Born:
Sept. 9, 1834, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.
Died:
March 4, 1903, Edgbaston, near Birmingham (aged 68)

Joseph Henry Shorthouse (born Sept. 9, 1834, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng.—died March 4, 1903, Edgbaston, near Birmingham) was an English novelist whose John Inglesant constitutes one of the best examples of the philosophical romance in English literature. Set in England and Italy during the 17th century, the work is concerned with conflicts between church and state, the Church of England and the Roman Catholic church, ritualism and simplicity, and different views of the sacraments, as well as other subjects. Its revenge plot—in which Inglesant pursues his brother’s murderer—is less important than the hero’s spiritual journey and assertion of the claims of ...(100 of 185 words)

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