Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Roman Catholic Church
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Mary Ward | Her later years are to be seen in terms of her inner spiritual life as well as her public religious-political activities. Though her relations with the Jesuits
and with the Papal Curia
were often difficult... |
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold
(father of the future MAW
) abandoned Roman Catholicism
and returned to the Church of England
. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 24 |
| Cultural formation | Marina Warner | Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. Williams, Elaine. Marina Warner. Editor Griffiths, Sian, Manchester University Press, pp. 259-67. 261 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Marina Warner | In this text, Warner traces the ways that the figure of the Virgin Mary has been used and changed over time in many cultures and for many reasons. She is critical of the Catholic Church |
| Textual Features | Sylvia Townsend Warner | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Warren | |
| Cultural formation | Sarah Waters | SW
grew up as a Roman Catholic
in the British lower middle class (with English and Welsh roots, describing herself as Welsh). Like many others, her family had risen in the world, since her grandparents... |
| Literary responses | Evelyn Waugh | Most reviews were mocking in tone, in keeping with the late image of Waugh as a kind of Colonel Blimp. Philip Larkin
wrote that to be one of his correspondents one would have to have... |
| Author summary | Evelyn Waugh | EW
was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He... |
| 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>”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0. 184 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Waugh | The marriage lasted only a little over a year. EW
filed for divorce on 3 September 1929, after his wife was unfaithful to him. The rapid end of this marriage shook him badly. Since he... |
| Cultural formation | Evelyn Waugh | It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW
converted to Catholicism
. He was received into the Church on 29 September that year. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| death | Evelyn Waugh | He had just taken part in a festive family lunch following a local celebration by his friend Father Caraman
of the Roman Catholic
Mass in Latin, not English: that is, according to the old rite... |
| Textual Production | Evelyn Waugh | After EW
's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of... |
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