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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Mary McCarthy
She was born into the white American middle class. One of her grandparents was Jewish. The Catholic girlhood which she later wrote about was inflicted on her by her devout maternal grandparents.
Cultural formation Katherine Cecil Thurston
Both of KCT 's parents were Irish Catholics , and in comfortable financial circumstances. Her birth family was comprised of professionals and merchants, members of the rising middle class.
McCormack, Declan. “The Butterfly on the Wheel”. The Independent.
24 September 2000
Her childhood home...
Cultural formation Beryl Bainbridge
BB was born into the English lower middle class. She says her family had been quite well off until the slump of 1929, but then they had lost everything. She converted to Catholicism during her...
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 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.
191
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 Elizabeth Inchbald
Her husband, like her parents, was Roman Catholic . Despite periods when she neglected churchgoing or doubted her faith, she considered herself a Catholic to the end of her life. She was particularly devout in...
Cultural formation Lady Jane Lumley
By birth and marriage LJL belonged to the English nobility. Her father was sharply attentive to issues of rank. LJL was born at almost the same time as the Church of England , and her...
Cultural formation Florence Nightingale
Towards the end of this period of involvement with Catholicism , FN received a second call from God, directing her to devote her life entirely to him. She apparently experienced similar calls in 1850, 1853...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Shirley
Born into the English gentry, ES was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic:
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.
that is to say, a member of the Church of England . Her eldest brother, for...
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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