Project Canterbury
Was Father Field a Christian Socialist?
by the Revd Robert Rea
WORKS CONSULTED
Primary Sources:
Documents in the Archives of the Society of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Benson, Richard Meux, The Final Passover, Vol I, London, J Hayes, 1884.
------, Ibid., Vol II, London, Longmans, Green, 1895.
------, Ibid., Vol IV, New York, Longmans, Green, 1898.
------, Followers of the Lamb, London, Longmans, Green, 1898.
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------, Spiritual Readings for Every Day: Advent, London, T Hayes, 1879.
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Field, C N, The Christmas Mystery: A Nativity Play compiled by C N Field for the benefit of St Augustine's Church, on Phillips Street, Boston, n d, texts and scores, in the SSJE Archives, Cambridge.
Field, C N. The Easter Mystery, followed by the Story of Jacob's Ladder and the Ending of Dives and Lazarus: A Miracle Play composed by the Reverend C N Field SSJE, for the edification of the children of the Faith, n d, texts and scores, in the SSJE Archives, Cambridge.
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------------, Constitution and Office, Philadelphia, n d.
------------, Manual, Philadelphia, n d.
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------, The Victorian Church, 2 vols, 1966-1970.
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Rea, Robert, "The Society of St John the Evangelist," in Duffy, Mark J, ed, The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, 1784-1984, Boston, The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, 1984.
Shaw, George Bernard, Candida, 1895.
Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury, Here is God's Plenty, New York, Harpers.
------, Neighborhood: My Story of Greenwich House, New York, Norton, 1938.
-------, "Father Field--Friend of Colored Children," Journal of Negro Life, January 1930, p 17f.
Smith, Martin L, SSJE, ed, Benson of Cowley, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1980.
------, "Benson, Richard Meux," The Westminster Dictionary of Spirituality, ed Gordon Wakefield, Philadelphia, The Westminster Press, 1983.
Smith, Robert C, The Cowley Fathers in America: The Early Years, n d.
------, The Shrine on Bowdoin Street, 1883-1958, n d.
Sockman, Ralph, The Revival of Conventual Life in the Church of England in the Nineteenth Century New York, W D Gray, 1917. This is a PhD dissertation completed at Columbia University.
Tournier, Wilton, The Cross of Iron. with a sketch of the Life and Work of ather Field, Philadelphia, Wm Fell, 1891. This is an entirly laudatory and uncritical biography, written when Fr Field left Philadelphia. It is a primary source for his words and thoughts, but is entirly undocumented.
Woodgate, M V, Father Benson: Founder of the Cowley Fathers, London, Geoffrey Bles, 1953. One regrets and misses the presence in this and the following work of any useful documentation.
------, Father Congreve of Cowley, London, SPCK, 1956.