Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Hope Mirrlees
HM quietly converted to Roman Catholicism .
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
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Cultural formation Teresa Deevy
TD was an Irishwoman, presumably white, brought up in the Catholic Church . Her parents belonged, says her editor, to the prosperous Waterford merchant class.
Deevy, Teresa. “Chapter One, Ineffable Longings: the Dramas of Teresa Deevy”. Selected Plays of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, 1894-1963, edited by Éibhear Walshe, Edwin Mellen Press, 2003, pp. 1-15.
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Cultural formation Martha Fowke
MF came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican .
Cultural formation Clotilde Graves
Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG converted to Catholicism in 1896.
Cultural formation Dora Greenwell
Presumably white, DG was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as...
Cultural formation Mary Howitt
The family was somewhat rigidly Quaker . As a girl MH entertained rebellious feelings about the severity of their religion, their ban on stylish clothes and artistic beauty. Early in her marriage she felt drawn...
Cultural formation E. Nesbit
EN became a Roman Catholic a couple of years after her husband had done so in 1900, but their practice of their new religion seems to have been the minimum required, and they did not...
Cultural formation Frances Burney
FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Cultural formation Naomi Royde-Smith
In about 1940 both NRS and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism , a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy (while she and her...
Cultural formation Radclyffe Hall
RH 's belief in spiritualism was in conflict with her Catholicism . The Catholic Church did not condone spiritualism and she could not find a confessor who approved of her meetings with the medium she...
Cultural formation Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic priest, but found it unsatisfying.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Having read an essay by Thomas Carlyle during the Christmas...
Cultural formation Hilary Mantel
Her parents—Margaret Foster and Henry Thompson —were of IrishCatholic extraction, descendants of immigrants who had come to work for the textile mills. They were working class of little education, with distant, painful memories...
Cultural formation Kate O'Brien
Brought up a Catholic , KOBlost her faith while still at school; however, even without intellectual belief, she retained a strong emotional attachment to the religion of her forebears. Lorna Reynolds calls her a...
Cultural formation Dorothea Celesia
Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She...
Cultural formation Mary Wesley
MW and her husband converted together to Roman Catholicism , after only six sessions of instruction.
Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006.
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