Background
Augusta Theodosia Drane was born on the 29th of February, 1823 in Bromley, United Kingdom and brought up in the Anglican faith.
Augusta Theodosia Drane was born on the 29th of February, 1823 in Bromley, United Kingdom and brought up in the Anglican faith.
Drane fell under the influence of Tractarian teaching at Torquay, and joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1850. She wrote, and published anonymously, an essay questioning the Morality of Tractarianism, which was attributed to John Henry Newman.
In 1852, after a prolonged stay in Rome, Augusta Theodosia Drane joined the third order of St Dominic, to which she belonged for over forty years. She was prioress (1872-1881) of the Stone convent in Staffordshire, where she died in 1894. A complete list of her writings is given in Memoir of Mother Francis Raphael, O. SD. , Augusta Theodosia Drane, edited by B. Wilberforce, O. P. (London, 1895).