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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Enid Blyton | She was brought up a Baptist
(baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to... |
Cultural formation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | By December 1860 BLSB
was sufficiently interested in Roman Catholicism
(to which Bessie Rayner Parkes
later converted) to write about her interest to George Eliot
, who responded with sympathy but a clear statement of... |
Cultural formation | Frances Boothby | She clearly sprang from an educated segment of society, probably the gentry. It seems fairly certain that she was a Roman Catholic
. |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Boulger | Born to an English propertied family that in her generation was part of the British colonial administrative class, DB
incorporated her experiences in South America into some of her later writing. She was or became... |
Textual Features | Marjorie Bowen | Early in the story two young men, Dirk and Thierry, decide to study the dark arts. After they put a curse on a fellow-student they are accused of witchcraft and their apparatus discovered, but they... |
Cultural formation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland
member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic
, Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon
, was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was... |
Publishing | Charlotte Mary Brame | CMB
published her first collection of short stories, titled Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy. The material in this volume had originally appeared in the Catholic
magazine called The Lamp. Drozdz, Gregory. Charlotte Mary Brame. Gregory Drozdz. 8 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Charlotte Mary Brame | |
Textual Production | Charlotte Mary Brame | Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy was put out by the Catholic
publishing firm of Burns and Oates
: the Sisters of Mercy
belonged to an Irish nursing Order. The book seems... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Mary Brame | After these revelations the earl dies, leaving Laurie the bulk of his estate. Treated cruelly by her newly-discovered aunt and cousins because her appearance has dispossessed them of expected inheritance, Laurie finds some comfort in... |
Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | AB
was received into the Catholic Church
in Farm Street, London, by Father Charles Martindale
. Hoehn, Matthew, editor. Catholic Authors. St Mary’s Abbey. |
Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | In her youth AB
had a cousin who faithfully attended Mass. She later built friendships with several Anglican and Catholic clergy, visited monasteries in China and Albania during her travels, and eventually became a Roman Catholic |
Timeline
4 April 1687: James II's Abolition of the Test Act (a change...
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4 April 1687
James II
's Abolition of the Test Act (a change which was also called the Declaration of Indulgence) extended freedom of worship without penalty to Catholics
and Dissenting
sects; but it remained in force only...
11 April 1687: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, A...
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11 April 1687
John Dryden
's The Hind and the Panther, A Poem, In Three Parts, was licensed for print: a vindication of the Catholic Church
against the Church of England
which, unusually, takes the form of...
February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...
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February 1689 to October 1791
The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II
(who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange
(who had assumed...
12 July 1690: William III heavily defeated James II at...
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12 July 1690
William III
heavily defeated James II
at the battle of the Boyne in Ireland, in which 62,000 men fought.
12 July 1691: At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway,...
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12 July 1691
At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway, William III
's forces in Ireland (having just taken the town of Athlone with fearful destruction) won a decisive victory over those of James II
...
17 September 1695: The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics...
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17 September 1695
The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics restricted Catholic
education rights: this produced the emergence in Ireland of the celebrated, and mythologized, hedge schools.
1704: A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman...
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1704
A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman Catholic
estates in Ireland from descending by primogeniture to the eldest son; unless that eldest converted to Protestantism, the estate was to be shared equally among all...
1 May 1746: A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament...
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1 May 1746
A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament
in 1745 declared that from this date any marriage of a Protestant solemnised by a Catholic priest (whether to a Catholic or Protestant) was null and void.
March 1763: At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic...
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March 1763
At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic
farm workers rose in protest against working conditions and evictions.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, pp. 12-13. 23
By 1767: Of the thirty-seven county towns in England,...
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By 1767
Of the thirty-seven county towns in England, twelve had public Catholicmass-houses and at nine more a priest celebrated regular mass in his home.
5 February 1771: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...
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5 February 1771
15 February 1782: Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met...
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15 February 1782
Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers
met at Dungannon and adopted resolutions in favour of Ireland's independence from England and relaxation of the Penal Laws.
11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...
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11 May 1792
Edmund Burke
in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics
, Presbyterian
s, Quakers
, and others.
18 February 1793: A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts...
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18 February 1793
A Catholic
Relief Act repealed some parts of the infamous Penal Laws operative in Ireland. Either J. S. Anna Liddiard
or her husband
wrote in 1819 that this was the source of the improvement...
13 April 1829: The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received...
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13 April 1829
The Catholic
Emancipation Act at last received the royal assent, allowing limited civil rights, for the first time, to Catholics in Britain.
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