Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Roman Catholic Church
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | May Laffan | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jean Ingelow | The poems in this collection include Kismet, Lovers at the Lake Side, and Nature, for Nature's Sake. Several of the poems explore more dark and serious matters. The Maid-Martyr, for example... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Maria De Fleury | The second part is devoted to France. MDF
laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism
: slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition
. She identifies... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Evelyn Underhill | Like Mysticism, this book displays great erudition. EU
draws on research into eleven (mainly Christian) religious denominations to synthesize the nature, principles, and chief expressions of the human response to and relationship with the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Medbh McGuckian | The first part of this volume revolves around MMG
's parents, particularly her father, who had recently died. The second part moves from the personal to encompass also the political, and revolves around dialogue: between... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Georgiana Fullerton | A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Helen Oyeyemi | The main character, Maja Carmen Carrera, a black Jazz singer, immigrated from Cuba to London when she was five years old. Pregnant and living with her (white) Ghanaian husband (Aaron, a doctor), Maja struggles to... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Meeke | Something Odd! opens with a prefatory dialogue, The Author and his Pen, which consistently treats the author as male; he is addressed by the pen as master. It satirises both the Roman Catholic |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The clash between Nonconformist
and Roman Catholic
faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Priscilla Wakefield | PW
's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Hill, Bridget. “Priscilla Wakefield as a Writer of Children’s Educational Books”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 4 , No. 1, pp. 3-14. 7 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sara Maitland | SM
's topic here is sexuality in relation to a life vowed to celibacy in the Roman Catholic Church
. Her protagonist, Sister Anna, is a missionary nun in Latin America. She is in... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Sinclair | CS
sets up a dichotomy between Protestantism
, which is based on the truth of Scripture, and Catholicism
, which rests on legends. Without the Bible, she writes, men would be mere weeds in... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | John Oliver Hobbes | The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius
, John Wesley
, and Tolstoy
. Richards, John Morgan, and John Oliver Hobbes. “Pearl Richards Craigie: Biographical Sketch by her Father”. The Life of John Oliver Hobbes, J. Murray. 31 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Eglinton Wallace | It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. Wallace, Eglinton. Letter from Lady Wallace to Capt. William Wallace. J. Debrett. 1 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she... |
Timeline
1928: Two separate researchers in Germany, Ogino...
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1930: The Roman Catholic Church reiterated its...
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1930
The Roman Catholic Church
reiterated its continued non-acceptance of contraceptives in Pope Pius XI
's encyclical Casti connubii.
24 January 1960: The Catholic Church, through an Ecclesiastical...
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24 January 1960
The Catholic Church
, through an Ecclesiastical Council called by Pope John XXIII , decreed that women in Rome who were deemed to be dressed inappropriately should be barred from receiving the sacraments of baptism...
10 May 1960: In the USA the FDA approved the use of the...
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10 May 1960
In the USA the FDA
approved the use of the progestin oral contraceptive pill (marketed as Enovid). This had been developed by experimental scientist Gregory Pincus
(later in collaboration with physician John Rock
), whom...
2 December 1960: Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher, Archibishop...
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2 December 1960
3 January 1962: Pope John XXIII excommunicated Cuban leader...
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3 January 1962
11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...
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11 October 1962
3 June 1963: The death of the liberal Pope John XXIII...
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3 June 1963
The death of the liberal Pope John XXIII marked the end of a brief reforming period in the life of the Roman Catholic Church
.
1968: Mary Daly, an academic at the Jesuit-run...
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1968
Mary Daly
, an academic at the Jesuit-run Boston College
, published the first of her works in feministtheology, The Church and the Second Sex, an analysis of Roman Catholic
and, more broadly, Christian
thinking about women.
25 July 1968: Less than two months into his pontificate,...
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25 July 1968
Less than two months into his pontificate, Pope Paul VI
issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae on The Regulation of Birth, reaffirming the Roman Catholic Church
's anti-contraceptive position.
August 1969: Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland:...
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August 1969
Sectarian violence peaked in Northern Ireland: in Derry nationalist protestors attacked the Royal Ulster Constabulary
with bricks and petrol bombs, driving them out of the city's Catholic
area of Bogside; in Belfast hundreds of families...
1973: US feminist theologian Mary Daly published...
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1973
US feministtheologianMary Daly
published Beyond God the Father, which she called a self-conferred diploma marking her graduation from the Catholic church.
22 January 1973: In a case known as Roe v. Wade the US Supreme...
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22 January 1973
In a case known as Roe v. Wade the US Supreme Court
ruled that abortion was legal in some circumstances, and that state legislation which totally criminalized abortion was therefore illegal.
19 August 1977: The comedy Once a Catholic by Mary O'Malley...
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19 August 1977
The comedyOnce a Catholic by Mary O'Malley
opened at the Royal Court Theatre
; it transferred to the West End later this year and won a string of awards.
14 January 1994: Katharine, Duchess of Kent, converted to...
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14 January 1994
Katharine, Duchess of Kent
, converted to Catholicism
, becoming the first Roman Catholic member of the British Royal Family in more than 300 years.
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