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376:. After her conversion, Lady Amabel was constantly publishing what might serve for instruction or edification. In particular, she was a most strenuous and efficient member of the Catholic Truth Society, a regular attendant at its committee meetings, and one of the most prolific contributors to its literature, most of her work being done for it.
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258:; 24 March 1846 – 15 October 1906) was a British aristocrat and writer of religious literature, biographies, children's literature, and novels. She was also a translator from German to English, and a magazine editor. She was described in the
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Brinsley Sheridan; Maitland, Frances Mary; Maude, Sophie Dora Spicer; Mulholland, Clara (1897).
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A Round Table of the
Representative Irish and English Catholic Novelists: At which is Served a Feast of Excellent Stories; with Portraits, Biographical Sketches, and Bibliography
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at the time of his death, his wealth stated mainly devolved to issue of his three married sisters. Amabel's descendants, who later succeeded as
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was taken up by Lady Amabel, and she had almost completed the work when in the autumn of 1906, she died.
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The Life of the Blessed Sebastian Valfré of the Turin Oratory
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The Gift of Pentecost (meditations on the Holy Ghost)
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Monsignore Cacciaguerra ("A Precursor of St. Philip")
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409:St. Felix of Cantalice ("A Son of St. Francis")
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452:The translation from German to English of Dr.
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618:A Son of St. Francis. St. Felix of Cantalice
405:B. Anthony Grassi ("A Saint of the Oratory")
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818:. New York: Benziger Brothers. p. 103.
426:, she selected a volume which she entitled
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478:Mr. Auberon Herbert
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284:Life of Joan of Arc
1023:"A PEERAGE PUZZLE"
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