Roman Catholic Church

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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.
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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 Ann Bridge
In her youth AB had a cousin who faithfully attended Mass. She later built friendships with several Anglican and Catholic clergy, visited monasteries in China and Albania during her travels, and eventually became a Roman Catholic
Cultural formation Anne Devlin
AD grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid.
Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23.
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Her family heritage is Catholic ...
Cultural formation Harriet Hamilton King
Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism ...
Cultural formation Alice Meynell
Alice Thompson (later AM ) converted to Catholicism at Malvern, where she was recuperating from an illness.
The old Dictionary of National Biography placed AM 's conversion four years after this.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House.
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Cultural formation Mary Ann Radcliffe
MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.
Cultural formation Anne Carson
AC 's mother was a Roman Catholic and the two attended church together for much of her childhood.
Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview With Anne Carson”. Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 89, pp. 29-53.
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AC felt a great comfort in attending mass with her mother and remembers, fondly, the smell...
Cultural formation Clotilde Graves
Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG converted to Catholicism in 1896.
Cultural formation Naomi Royde-Smith
Born into the professional middle class, NRS had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins.
Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol.
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, No. 6481, p. 21.
She became a central and well-known...
Cultural formation Hélène Barcynska
She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...
Cultural formation Hélène Cixous
Early in life, HC also saw both of her parents suffer racism. At three years old, she discovered what being Jewish meant in Oran. When her father, a military officer during the war, took...
Cultural formation Ephelia
If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced...
Cultural formation Radclyffe Hall
With the support of her older lover, Ladye , RH converted to Catholicism .
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Cultural formation Naomi Jacob
Meanwhile in 1914, at a low ebb in her life, NJ converted to Roman Catholicism . She took instruction in the faith after reading Confessions of a Convert by R. H. Benson (a homosexual whose...

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