Roman Catholic Church

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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 Helen Waddell
Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...
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 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 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 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...
Cultural formation Jean Rhys
JR was at one time attracted to Catholicism , mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns
Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch.
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Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican , EW renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span&gt”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0.
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Cultural formation Mary Butts
During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...
Cultural formation John Donne
JD was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic . He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his...
Cultural formation Rumer Godden
For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
During the Interregnum, Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) became a Roman Catholic convert. Her conversion was said to reflect the influence of Henry Turberville , a priest who was extremely influential in his lifetime and (through...
Cultural formation Maria Theresa Longworth
She was brought up in a presumably white, English, middle-class household, heaede by a manufacturer father and without a mother (who died when she was very young). She converted to Roman Catholicism at a very...

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