Anne Hope (1809 – 1887), née Anne Fulton, was an English historian.

Life

She was born in

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, where her father, John Williamson Fulton (1769–1830), was at the time a prosperous merchant; her mother was Anne, daughter of Robert Robertson, and widow of Captain John Hunt of the Bengal army, and she was the second of four daughters. At an early age she was sent from India to

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, where her father's family resided. On her parents' return home, she settled with them in Upper Harley Street, London. In London, Fulton met her father's friends,

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, John Lawless, and other Irish parliamentary leaders. She married in 1831, and was widowed in 1841. Her health led her to spend time in

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between 1842 and 1850. There she studied church history, and in November 1850 she became a

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. Making the acquaintance of W. G. Ward and John Dobree Dalgairns, Hope lived for a time at

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, so as to be near the latter and

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at the

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. She later settled at

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. Although permanently disabled by a spinal complaint, she continued to write. She died at St. Mary-church, Torquay, on 2 February 1887 and was buried with her husband James on the 17th February in a family grave (plot no.316) on the western side of

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Works

Anne Hope assisted her husband in some of his publications. After his death in 1841 she prepared a memoir of him, which Dr. Klein Grant edited (1844); it went to four editions. A series of letters on self-education which she addressed to her son was published in 1842 and reissued in 1846. In 1850 Hope completed, but did not publish, a work on the

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in the first three centuries AD. She published in 1855 ''The Acts of the Early Martyrs'', based on

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's ''Flores Sanctorum'', and intended for the use of the schools connected with the Birmingham Oratory. It passed through five editions. In 1859 appeared her life of St. Philip Neri, which soon reached a third edition. Hope completed a life of St. Thomas à Becket in 1868, and a scholarly work on the ''Conversion of the Teutonic Race'' 1872 (2 vols.); for both works Dalgairns wrote a preface. She wrote articles in the '' Dublin Review'' between 1872 and 1879, replying there to

James Anthony Froude James Anthony Froude ( ; 23 April 1818 – 20 October 1894) was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of ''Fraser's Magazine''. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergym ...

's attack on St. Thomas à Becket in 1876. Her ''Franciscan Martyrs in England'' appeared in 1878. In 1894

Francis Aidan Gasquet Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet (born Francis Neil Gasquet; 5 October 1846 – 5 April 1929) was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar. He controversially challenged what he regarded as the anti-Catholic narrative of the English h ...

edited from Hope's manuscript her ''First Divorce of Henry VIII''.

Family

In 1831 Anne Fulton married James Hope, who died in 1841. in 1843 she published a 22-page memoir of her husband.

Theodore Hope Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope (9 December 1831 – 4 July 1915), often referred to as T. C. Hope, was a British born civil servant of the Government of India. His duties included Public Works, and he was an active layman of the Anglican Church. ...

was their only son.

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