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Roman Catholic Church
Connections
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Cultural formation | Carol Rumens | Born into the English lower middle class, Carol-Ann spent her early childhood in London, where her immediate family shared a gloomy, unwelcoming house owned by her grandparents in Forest Hill, living as [t]wo families... |
Cultural formation | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
, resident among a fervently Catholic group at Baddesley Clinton, converted to Roman Catholicism
. This was ten years after her second husband
's conversion, and only six months before her death. |
Cultural formation | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | When she was reduced to looking for work as a governess she found it a disadvantage to be not a member
of the Church of England. O’Conor Eccles, Charlotte. “The Experience of a Woman Journalist”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 153 , pp. 830-8. 153 (June 1893): 837 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Grymeston | Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England
came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church
, EG
was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of... |
Cultural formation | Sybille Bedford | Her father was, at least nominally, a Catholic, like innumerable generations before him. Her part-Jewish mother, baptised a Protestant, had to convert before her marriage. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint. 59 |
Cultural formation | Edith Sitwell | ES
was received into the Roman Catholic
Church at Farm Street Church
in Mayfair. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 318 |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Farjeon | The influence of Denys Blakelock
seems to have been decisive in EF
's reception into the Catholic Church
in August 1951, not long after her honeymoon with the actor. This event, which she presented to... |
Cultural formation | Lady Lucy Herbert | Her family's titles, wealth, elite status, and remarkable record of high ability were somewhat offset by the RomanCatholic
faith which excluded them from some of the civil rights and privileges possessed by other English or... |
Cultural formation | Coventry Patmore | After the death of his first wife
, CP
converted from Anglicanism
to Roman Catholicism
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Mary Brame | Born to English parents, CMB
came from a middle-class, presumably white background. Shortly after her birth her parents, Benjamin and Charlotte Law, converted to Catholicism
. It seems that early fears over the infant Charlotte's... |
Cultural formation | G. B. Stern | Both of GBS
's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense... |
Cultural formation | Ethel M. Dell | EMD
was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant
and her father a Catholic
who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD
adopted... |
Cultural formation | Una Troubridge | In 1929 UT
began to question the Catholic Church's position on sexual inversion. She felt disillusioned by the Church authorities: I begin to doubt whether authority has any place where the invert may lay... |
Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | Alice Thompson (later AM
) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English... |
Cultural formation | Kathleen Raine | KR
was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist
faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism
by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her... |
Timeline
8 December 1635: Queen Henrietta Maria's personal Roman Catholic...
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8 December 1635
Queen Henrietta Maria
's personal Roman Catholic
chapel, designed by Inigo Jones
, opened on the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
.
9 November 1640: In a season during which John Pym and the...
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9 November 1640
In a season during which John Pym
and the Long Parliament
created the laws and institutions which were to guide the early parliamentarian regime, a committee was set up to consider the issue of recusants.
By 1643: Arcangela Tarabotti (a Venetian, eldest of...
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By 1643
Arcangela Tarabotti
(a Venetian, eldest of nine sisters, who had been placed in a convent at an early age) was circulating in manuscript what became her best-known work, La Tirannia paterna or Paternal Tyranny.
30 March 1643: An altarpiece by Rubens in Henrietta Maria's...
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30 March 1643
An altarpiece by Rubens
in Henrietta Maria
's Roman Catholic
chapel in Somerset House, London (his only depiction of Christ on the cross), was destroyed by iconoclasts.
Before October 1646: Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48)...
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Before October 1646
Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw
(1613?-48) published his Steps to the Temple. SacredPoems, with other Delights of the Muses.
6 June 1654: Queen Christina abdicated from the throne...
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6 June 1654
Queen Christina
abdicated from the throne of Sweden; crowned queen at the age of five in 1632, she was crowned again in December 1644 on reaching eighteen.
1670: Les Pensées de M. Pascal sur la réligion,...
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1670
Les Pensées de M. Pascal
sur la réligion, et sur quelques autres sujets was posthumously published: it takes the form of a collection of aphorisms and very brief essays.
15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...
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15 March 1672
Charles II
promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence, repealing all penal laws in force against nonconformist
s or recusants
in England. This was, however, withdrawn after a year.
March 1673: Charles II withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence...
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March 1673
Charles II
withdrew the Declaration of Indulgence promulgated one year earlier, which had offered a limited degree of freedom of worship to both Dissenters
and Roman Catholics
.
Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...
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Late March 1673
The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England
and an oath against the Catholic
doctrine of Transubstantiation.
1676: A tally taken by Church of England clergymen...
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1676
A tally taken by Church of England
clergymen and known as the Compton Census set out to number adult Catholics
and Dissenters
in England and Wales.
Early 1678: Persecution of Scots Covenanters and attenders...
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Early 1678
Persecution of Scots Covenanters
and attenders at secret conventicles reached a new level with the despatch of Highland troops (mostly Roman Catholics
) to enforce the law in Ayrshire.
1682: Bunyan published an allegory of salvation...
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1682
Bunyan
published an allegoryof salvation entitled The Holy War, probably written in the first quarter of this year.
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