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William Francis Barry
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William Francis Barry (21 April 1849 – 15 December 1930) was a British Catholic priest, theologian, educator and writer. He served as vice president and professor of philosophy at Birmingham Theological College from 1873 to 1877 and then professor of divinity at

modern English Catholic novel.[2]

Biography

Oscott College

William Francis Barry was born in

London University, and a scholar of the English College de Urbe. He also became exceptionally knowledgeable in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Gaelic, Greek, and Latin languages and literature.[1][2]

He studied under Cardinals

Nineteenth Century;[2] he published around 70 essays in various periodicals during his lifetime.[1]
In the 1890s he was a friend of Count Stenbock, Lionel Johnson and Robert Ross. (see W.B. Yeats letters, vol.2).

Barry began traveling the country, first going on mission in

English socialist becomes entangled in Italian revolutionary politics, while The Wizard's Knot (1901) criticised the Celtic Revivalism. His last novel, The Dayspring (1903),[1] depicts a young Irishman who journeys to France to live in the Paris Commune but eventually chooses to leave for America considering it to hold a truer prospect of freedom than life in the Commune.[2]

Barry then turned to non-fiction and published a series of books on religion. These included biographies on religious figures such as

Pius XI.[4] Barry wrote his autobiography
, Memories and Opinions (1926), three years later.

After living at

Leamington for a time as rector of St. Peter's, he moved back to Oxford in 1928;[2]
he died there on 15 December 1930, at the age of 81.

Bibliography

Fiction

  • The New Antigone (1887)
  • The Two Standards (1898)
  • Arden Massiter (1900)
  • The Wizard's Knot (1901)
  • The Dayspring (1903)

Non-fiction

  • The Papal Monarchy (1902)
  • Newman (1904)
  • Heralds of Revolt (1904)
  • Ernest Renan (1905)
  • The King's Highway of the Holy Cross (1905)
  • The Catholic Church and Labour (1908)
  • The Religion of America: To a Catholic Missionary in the United States (1913)
  • The World's Debate (1917)
  • Memories and Opinions (1926)
  • The Triumph of Life, Or Science and the Soul (1928)
  • The Papacy and Modern Times: A Political Sketch, 1303-1870 (1929)
  • The Tariff (1929)
  • The Coming Age and the Catholic Church: A Forecast (1929)

Studies on William F. Barry

  • Sheridan Gilley, 'Father William Barry: Priest and Novelist'. In Recusant History, vol. 24, no. 4 (1999), pp. 523–551.
  • J.R.Tye, 'Malleus Maleficorum: The Reverend W.F. Barry, DD, 1849-1930'. In English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, vol. 16, no. 1 (1973), pp. 43–56.

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
  1. ^ a b c d e Sladen, Douglas, ed. Who's Who, 1907: An Annual Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 59. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. (pg. 104)
  2. ^
    ISBN 0-19-811760-4
  3. ^ Cf. Memories and Opinions (1926)
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-8240-9400-X
  5. ^ a b Geddie, J. Liddell and J.C. Smith, ed. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature. Vol. 3. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938. (pg. 842)
  6. ^ a b "Ricorso". Canon William Barry: Life, works, criticism, notes. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
  7. ^ "Barry, Very Reverend Canon William Francis", The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers, Encyclopedia Press, Incorporated, 1917, p. 10

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