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McLean County named for long-forgotten Southern Illinoisan
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BLOOMINGTON - Tomorrow will mark the 217th anniversary of the
birth of a long-obscure, white male who happens to be the namesake
of McLean County.
Although all but forgotten today, John McLean played a
significant role in Illinois politics during the first decade after
statehood. He championed slavery, even supporting its spread into
his adopted state, yet remained well-liked among the more forward-
thinking opposition - those who believed the introduction of the
"peculiar institution" into Illinois was morally and
constitutionally untenable.
Born on Feb. 4, 1791, in North Carolina and raised ...
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Making Christ: Alice Meynell, poetry, and the eucharist.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature
; ...ritual. Christianity grounds Meynell's feminism and her socialism...incompatible elements to Meynell, indeed quite the reverse...ourselves as part of humankind. Meynell was born Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson in 1847. Her early life...
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A misfit poet of heaven: ne'er-do-well Francis Thompson wrote the still-haunting 'Hound of Heaven'.(Opinion & ARTS)(Biography)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter
; ...thrust in. The door closed but Thompson had not entered. Again it opened...stage of physical collapse." Mr. Meynell and his wife, the poet Alice Meynell, gradually began to take responsibility for Thompson and continued to do so for the...
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Quarrels and coteries in the 1890s.(England)
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies
; ...the Rhymers' Club, the 'Valistes' (Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon), Francis Thompson and the Catholic circle surrounding Alice and Wilfred Meynell, and the Wilde and Whistler camps. Recognition of the complex motives behind the quarrels...
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The poets and poetry of the 1890s - a millennial view.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review
; ...poets, such as Housman, Hardy, Phillips, Binyon, Thompson and time-transcending Yeats. Neither should one forget...the last century's final years. Olive Custance, Alice Meynell, Dollie Radford, and the twain - Katherine Harris...
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