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Cultural formation Kate Chopin
KC had a cultural heritage which was both French Creole (her mother's family had come to Louisiana centuries earlier from northern France) and Irish. She was a presumably white American, of a well-to-do...
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.
Throughout her life (which she said was too quiet to be of interest to the public) she...
Cultural formation Florence Marryat
A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.
Cultural formation Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP described herself as having been born in the very bosom of Puritan England, and fed daily upon the strict letter of the Scripture from aged lips which I regarded with profound reverence.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
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Her...
Cultural formation Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
She was brought up a Catholic but became a sceptic, apart from a continuing superstitious feeling about religion.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114.
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Cultural formation Pamela Frankau
After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record
Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann.
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and then from a vague indifference about religion, PF was received into the Roman Catholic Church .
Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann.
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Cultural formation Rose Hickman
Rose, who was pregnant and soon to give birth when her husband fled into exile, consulted Cranmer , Latimer , and Ridley as to whether it would be betraying her faith to have the child...
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 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.
218
, No. 6481, p. 21.
She became a central and well-known...
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 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...
Cultural formation Mary Ward
During this London visit she is said to have converted others to Catholicism and to have had an ecstatic vision of her own. She experienced another vision two years later, and another at St Omer...

Timeline

16 June 1846: Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory...

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16 June 1846

Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory XVI on 1 June 1846. The new Pope's election was a victory for liberals in the Roman Catholic Church over the conservatives.

From 1848: Between this year and October 1996 (when...

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From 1848

Between this year and October 1996 (when the last one closed), over 30,000 women and girls were virtually imprisoned in Ireland'sMagdalene Asylums for sexual misconduct or other perceived transgressions against the conservative moral code...

1848: The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters arrived...

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1848

The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters arrived in Ireland, and the first Magdalene Asylums were established.

17 July 1851: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...

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17 July 1851

John Lingard , historian and Roman Catholic priest, died at Hornby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...

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8 August 1851

The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England ) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger (1790-1862).

1868: A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing...

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1868

A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing the Depravity of the Romish Priesthood was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 25 August 1857.

24 October 1868: With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton,...

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24 October 1868

With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton , novelist and journalist Frances Margaret Taylor established, in rented rooms off Fleet Street, London, the religious community that would become the Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God

26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...

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26 July 1869

The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords .

13 September 1896: Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical Apostolicae...

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13 September 1896

Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical Apostolicae Curae, which formally rejected Anglican ordinations within the Roman Catholic Church as absolutely null and utterly void.
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins.
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1906: Josephine Ward published her religious attack...

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1906

Josephine Ward published her religious attack on Modernism, Out of Due Time: A Novel.

1912: A religious novel by Mary Dickens, The Debtor,...

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1912

A religiousnovel by Mary Dickens , The Debtor, was published.

21 August 1913: The Lock-Out Strike began in Dublin when...

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21 August 1913

The Lock-Out Strike began in Dublin when leading businessman William Martin Murphy summarily dismissed two hundred parcels workers from his Dublin Tramways Company on the grounds that they belonged to the Irish Transport Union .

16 May 1920: Joan of Arc was canonised as a saint of the...

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16 May 1920

Joan of Arc was canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church .

1926: Soon after Chatto and Windus published The...

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1926

Soon after Chatto and Windus published The Cantab by Shane Leslie , the book was censured by the Roman Catholic Church , and Leslie (a Catholic himself, who had been critical of James Joyce 's...

1926: Frank Sheed and Masie Ward founded Sheed...

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1926

Frank Sheed and Masie Ward founded Sheed and Ward Limited at 31 Paternoster Row, London, to publish and circulate Catholic thought.

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