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Born in London, died in St John's Wood.
Daughter of Thomas William Allies (1813–1903) and his wife, Eliza Hall, who were both converts to Roman Catholicism.
Historian and translator; author of religious / scholarly books on the history of the Catholic church
In the entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, her "Life of Pius" is still considered a "standard work", and the "History of the Church in England" is referred to as "a readable and vehemently Catholic account of the English church before 1603" offering "an original and striking piece of religious sociology"
Also contributed articles to the Catholic World and the Dublin Review
(cf. Rosemary Mitchell, ‘Allies, Mary Helen Agnes (1852–1927)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004)
Translator from Greek. |