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词条 Charles Maurice Davies
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. Work

  4. Publications

  5. References

  6. External links

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Charles Maurice Davies (1828–1910) was an Anglican clergyman, writer and spiritualist.

Early life

Charles Maurice Davies was born in 1828 in Wells, Somerset. He entered University College, Durham in 1845, graduating with a second-class BA in Classics in 1848.[1] He was elected a fellow of Durham University in 1849.[2]

In 1851 he was ordained a deacon, and in 1852 was ordained a priest. He served as a curate in various parishes.{{sfn|Watson|Dodsworth|2012|p=487}} He married Jane Anne Greenaway in 1856.[3]

Career

Davies was at first associated with the "high church" Anglicans, whose thinking was closer to Roman Catholic than Protestant traditions.{{sfn|Watson|Dodsworth|2012|p=487}}

On 28 February 1855 Davies and five other Anglican clergy met at the House of Charity, Rose Street, Soho, London, and founded the Anglo-Catholic Society of the Holy Cross. Davies at that time was curate of St Matthew's, City Road, in London. The leader of the group was Charles Lowder. The other founders were David Nicols, Alfred Poole, Joseph Newton Smith and Henry Augustus Rawes.{{sfn|Hightower|1999}}

For a short period Davies became a Roman Catholic, before rejoining the Church of England as a liberal.{{sfn|St George-in-the-East Clergy 1860–1900}}

In his later years Davies identified himself as a "broad churchman" and thought the church should tolerate a wide range of beliefs and practices.{{sfn|Watson|Dodsworth|2012|p=487}}

Davies moved to Paris where he taught Classics and Modern English.{{sfn|Byrne|2010|p=165}}

Spiritualism was in vogue in Paris at that time, and Davies' wife began experimenting with automatic writing.{{sfn|Byrne|2010|p=165-166}}

His brother was also interested in spiritualism, and Davies himself was eventually convinced by the results of a seance.{{sfn|Byrne|2010|p=166}}

After his son died in 1865 Davies became committed to spiritualism.{{sfn|Davies|1875|p=i}}

He did not play an active role in spiritualism until August 1874, when he attended a spiritualist conference in Gower Street, London.{{sfn|Byrne|2010|p=166}} He was a member of the British National Association of Spiritualists.[4]

From 1861 to 1868 Davies was headmaster of the West London Collegiate School. After this he increasingly devoted himself to journalism. In 1870 he represented the Daily Telegraph in France on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War and was arrested as a suspected spy while searching Metz for his colleague, George Augustus Sala.[5]

In 1875 Davies was briefly lecturer at the church of St George-in-the-East in Stepney.{{sfn|St George-in-the-East Clergy 1860–1900}}

In 1881 he called himself "a Sunday Evening Lecturer at Chelsea Parish Church", but he left holy orders after 1882.

He continued to believe that Christianity and spiritualism were complementary beliefs.{{sfn|Byrne|2010|p=165}}

On his resettling in London, he was employed after 1893 in superintending a series of translations, undertaken at the instance of Cecil Rhodes, of the original authorities used by Edward Gibbon in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.[6] Nearly thirty scholars worked under his supervision and over a hundred volumes were completed. Davies retired from active work in 1901, and died at his home, 50 Connaught Road, Harlesden, London, on 6 September 1910.[7]

Work

Charles Maurice Davies sometimes wrote under the pseudonyms "A Church of England Clergyman", "C M D" and "An Ex-Puseyite".{{sfn|Rev Charles Maurice Davies: Abe Books}}

He is best known for his novels Philip Paternoster (1858), Shadow Land (1860), Broad Church (1875) and 'Verts (1876).

His journalistic works were published in the collections Unorthodox London (1873), Heterodox London (1874), Orthodox London (1874–75) and Mystic London (1875).

They may be seen as works of urban ethnography, examining the cultures of the various religious groups and exploring the extent to which unorthodox religious practices could be tolerated by the Church of England.{{sfn|Watson|Dodsworth|2012|p=487}}

Publications

Davies was a prolific author. Selected works:

Novels{{refbegin}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Philip Paternoster, by an ex-Puseyite|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=frIBAAAAQAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1858}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Shadow Land: a Story with a Purpose. By the Author of "Philip Paternoster, Etc."|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SGg0mgEACAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1860}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Broad church: three volumes in one|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ly80ygAACAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1875|publisher=Garland}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title='Verts; or, The three creeds|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtoBAAAAQAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1876}}
{{refend}}Journalism{{refbegin}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Unorthodox London: Or, Phases of Religious Life in the Metropolis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rW8AAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1874|publisher=Tinsley Bros.}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Heterodox London V2: Or, Phases of Free Thought in the Metropolis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rEjjIAAACAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|date=1874|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|isbn=978-0-548-18364-9}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Orthodox London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bnqlf5OQtGMC|accessdate=29 August 2013|date=1874–75|publisher=Read Books Design|isbn=978-1-4460-0472-2}}
  • {{cite book|ref=harv|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Mystic London: Or, Phases of Occult Life in the Metropolis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DOx2XSpxqN8C|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1875|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-02743-4}}
{{refend}}Miscellaneous{{refbegin}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Hyper-Tractarianism. Being a Letter Addressed to the Lord Bishop of London. By the Author of "Philip Paternoster" [i.e. Charles M. Davies], Etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qSYmMwEACAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1859|publisher=London}}
  • {{cite book|last1=Davies|first1=Charles Maurice|last2=Bentley|first2=Richard|title=A Tractarian Love Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5DlfMwEACAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1861|publisher=Richard Bentley}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Anti-Sillyass: Or, The Modern Odyssey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=27MsAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1874|publisher=Tinsley}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=London Sermons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9tUTAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1875|publisher=Tinsley}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Maud Blount, Medium: A Story of Modern Spiritualism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fBj4nAEACAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1877|publisher=Tinsley Brothers}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=Fun, Ancient and Modern|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBEzAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1878|publisher=Tinsley brothers}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=The Future that Awaits Us. The Appearances of Jesus During the Great Forty Days, Viewed as a Revelation of the Unseen World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3mX2MgEACAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1884}}
  • {{cite book|last=Davies|first=Charles Maurice|title=The Great Secret and Its Unfoldment in Occultism: A Record of Forty Years' Experience in the Modern Mystery|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S4sAAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=29 August 2013|year=1895|publisher=G. Redway}}
{{refend}}

References

Citations
1. ^{{cite web |title=Davies, Charles Maurice (1828–1910) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32735?rskey=wkPWzv&result=14 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |accessdate=22 September 2018 |language=en |}}
2. ^{{cite web |title=Davies, Charles Maurice (1828–1910) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32735?rskey=wkPWzv&result=14 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |accessdate=22 September 2018 |language=en |}}
3. ^{{cite web |title=Davies, Charles Maurice (1828–1910) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32735?rskey=wkPWzv&result=14 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |accessdate=22 September 2018 |language=en |}}
4. ^Lavoie, Jeffrey D. (2014). Search for Meaning in Victorian Religion: The Spiritual Journey and Esoteric Teachings of Charles Carleton Massey. Lehigh University Press. pp. 19-20. {{ISBN|978-1611461848}}
5. ^{{cite web |title=Davies, Charles Maurice (1828–1910) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32735?rskey=wkPWzv&result=14 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |accessdate=22 September 2018 |language=en |}}
6. ^{{cite web |title=Davies, Charles Maurice (1828–1910) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32735?rskey=wkPWzv&result=14 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |accessdate=22 September 2018 |language=en |}}
7. ^{{cite web |title=Davies, Charles Maurice (1828–1910) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32735?rskey=wkPWzv&result=14 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |accessdate=22 September 2018 |language=en |}}
Sources{{refbegin}}
  • {{cite book|ref=harv

|last=Byrne|first=Georgina|title=Modern Spiritualism and the Church of England, 1850–1939
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tN0sghhm79oC&pg=PA165|accessdate=29 August 2013
|year=2010|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-84383-589-9}}
  • {{cite web |ref=harv|url=http://www.sscamericas.org/resources/history.htm

|last=Hightower|first=Rev. Dr. Thomas |title=A brief history of the early years of the Society of the Holy Cross|year=1999 |accessdate=29 August 2013}}
  • {{cite web |ref={{harvid|Rev Charles Maurice Davies: Abe Books}} |url=http://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/rev-charles-maurice-davies/page-1/

|title=Rev Charles Maurice Davies|work=Abe Books|accessdate=29 August 2013}}
  • {{cite web |ref={{harvid|St George-in-the-East Clergy 1860–1900}} |url=http://www.stgite.org.uk/sgiteclergy1860.html

|title=St George-in-the-East Clergy 1860–1900|publisher=St George-in-the-East with St Paul|accessdate=29 August 2013}}
  • {{cite journal |ref=harv |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8669037

|last1=Watson |first1=Sophie|last2=Dodsworth |first2=Francis |date=September 2012 |title=Into unorthodox London: the religious ethnography of Charles Maurice Davies.
|journal=Victorian Literature and Culture |volume=40 |issue=2}}{{refend}}

External links

  • {{Gutenberg author | id=Davies,+Charles+Maurice | name=Charles Maurice Davies}}
  • {{Librivox author |id=11134}}
  • {{Internet Archive author |sname=Charles Maurice Davies |sopt=t}}
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