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Cultural formation | Germaine Greer | Confirmed as a Roman Catholic
as a child, GG
at fourteen was into fasting and kneeling in prayer in the church for hours on end, in a fervour which she later identified as sexual. Her... |
Cultural formation | Naomi Jacob | NJ
was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost... |
Cultural formation | Sara Maitland | Brought up a Presbyterian
, SM
was received into the Anglo-Catholic church in 1972 (the year of her marriage and of her husband's appointment as a parish priest) and later became a Roman Catholic
. |
Cultural formation | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | She came from an ancient, noble, Roman Catholic
family, who were English with some claim to be Welsh. Sheffield Grace
, who wrote comments on her famous letter in 1827, ascribed her qualities to her... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ward | Her later years are to be seen in terms of her inner spiritual life as well as her public religious-political activities. Though her relations with the Jesuits
and with the Papal Curia
were often difficult... |
Cultural formation | Agnes Mary Clerke | |
Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | At some time before her death, AH
converted to Catholicism
(which had been her father's religion). Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 7: 175 |
Cultural formation | Julia Kavanagh | Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic
and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. |
Cultural formation | Florence Marryat | A Roman Catholic
, FM
also developed an interest in spiritualism. |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
, who had long ceased to be a Unitarian
and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 3 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. |
Cultural formation | G. B. Stern | At the end of the Second World War, GBS
converted to Catholicism
from her purely nominal Judaism. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Cultural formation | Frances Boothby | She clearly sprang from an educated segment of society, probably the gentry. It seems fairly certain that she was a Roman Catholic
. |
Cultural formation | Dante Alighieri | He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party... |
Cultural formation | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Craigie (JOH
) entered the Roman Catholic Church
at a ceremony at St James's Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London. She now assumed the name Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie. Harding, Mildred Davis. Air-Bird in the Water. Associated University Presses. 77 |
Cultural formation | Fanny Kingsley | FK
was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms
describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic... |
Timeline
4 April 1687: James II's Abolition of the Test Act (a change...
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4 April 1687
James II
's Abolition of the Test Act (a change which was also called the Declaration of Indulgence) extended freedom of worship without penalty to Catholics
and Dissenting
sects; but it remained in force only...
11 April 1687: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, A...
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11 April 1687
John Dryden
's The Hind and the Panther, A Poem, In Three Parts, was licensed for print: a vindication of the Catholic Church
against the Church of England
which, unusually, takes the form of...
February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...
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February 1689 to October 1791
The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II
(who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange
(who had assumed...
12 July 1690: William III heavily defeated James II at...
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12 July 1690
William III
heavily defeated James II
at the battle of the Boyne in Ireland, in which 62,000 men fought.
12 July 1691: At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway,...
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12 July 1691
At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway, William III
's forces in Ireland (having just taken the town of Athlone with fearful destruction) won a decisive victory over those of James II
...
17 September 1695: The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics...
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17 September 1695
The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics restricted Catholic
education rights: this produced the emergence in Ireland of the celebrated, and mythologized, hedge schools.
1704: A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman...
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1704
A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman Catholic
estates in Ireland from descending by primogeniture to the eldest son; unless that eldest converted to Protestantism, the estate was to be shared equally among all...
1 May 1746: A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament...
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1 May 1746
A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament
in 1745 declared that from this date any marriage of a Protestant solemnised by a Catholic priest (whether to a Catholic or Protestant) was null and void.
March 1763: At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic...
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March 1763
At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic
farm workers rose in protest against working conditions and evictions.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, pp. 12-13. 23
By 1767: Of the thirty-seven county towns in England,...
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By 1767
Of the thirty-seven county towns in England, twelve had public Catholicmass-houses and at nine more a priest celebrated regular mass in his home.
5 February 1771: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...
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5 February 1771
15 February 1782: Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met...
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15 February 1782
Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers
met at Dungannon and adopted resolutions in favour of Ireland's independence from England and relaxation of the Penal Laws.
11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...
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11 May 1792
Edmund Burke
in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics
, Presbyterian
s, Quakers
, and others.
18 February 1793: A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts...
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18 February 1793
A Catholic
Relief Act repealed some parts of the infamous Penal Laws operative in Ireland. Either J. S. Anna Liddiard
or her husband
wrote in 1819 that this was the source of the improvement...
13 April 1829: The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received...
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13 April 1829
The Catholic
Emancipation Act at last received the royal assent, allowing limited civil rights, for the first time, to Catholics in Britain.
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