Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Elma Napier
EN was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian , the family attended a Presbyterian kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Delaval
ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...
Cultural formation Antonia Fraser
Antonia converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a...
Cultural formation Naomi Royde-Smith
Born into the professional middle class, NRS had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins.
Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol.
218
, No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21.
She became a central and well-known...
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, 1997.
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Cultural formation F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ was brought up as a Catholic . Her paternal ancestors were writers, poets, theologians, and historians, while her maternal ancestors were colliery owners. By the time of her birth, her family had lost its...
Cultural formation Edna O'Brien
EOB 's life and writing have been shaped by her Irish Catholic upbringing. Growing up in a sparsely populated, rural part of Ireland, EOB spoke English at home but studied the Irish language at school...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Radcliffe
MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.
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 Margery Kempe
She was, like the whole population of England in her day, a Roman Catholic ; she was suspected, but acquitted, of the heresy of Lollardy .
Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, translated by. Barry A. Windeatt, Penguin, 1994, pp. 9-30.
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After a prolific married life, she became a celibate.
Cultural formation Georgiana Chatterton
GC , resident among a fervently Catholic group at Baddesley Clinton, converted to Roman Catholicism . This was ten years after her second husband 's conversion, and only six months before her death.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Carol Ann Duffy
Brought up a Catholic , CAD early became an agnostic. She has said that she retain[s] some of the motifs of all that and none of the feelings; faith, guilt, whatever. I do envy people...
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 Waughs Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and FallJane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181-0.
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Cultural formation Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP , who had long ceased to be a Unitarian and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism .
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2026, 2 vols.
Cultural formation Catherine Holland
CH (now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism .
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