Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation Leonora Carrington
LC was born to an Irish Catholic mother and a Protestant English father.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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Cultural formation Claire Keegan
She was born into the Irish, Catholic , farming community.
CK is extremely reticent about her life, giving out almost no facts in public. Her story Safe, about a seventeen-year-old youngest daughter leaving her...
Cultural formation John Donne
JD was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic . He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his...
Cultural formation Kate Marsden
Aspects of her identity shifted over time. KM was born into an English, professional, presumably white family of the upper-middle class, who lost their financial security because of her father's early death. Protestant for much...
Cultural formation Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Jane Barker
Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...
Cultural formation Frances Sarah Hoey
John Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and on her marriage FSH converted to Catholicism . Catholicism is not usually an issue in her fiction (with the exception of the anti-divorce novel Out of Court...
Cultural formation Kate Chopin
KC had a cultural heritage which was both French Creole (her mother's family had come to Louisiana centuries earlier from northern France) and Irish. She was a presumably white American, of a well-to-do...
Cultural formation Clotilde Graves
Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG converted to Catholicism in 1896.
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 Mary Howitt
After converting to Roman Catholicism the previous year, MH was confirmed in that faith by the Prince-Bishop of Brixen (now Bressanone, a town in the Italian Tyrol).
Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952.
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Cultural formation Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL was born into the Roman CatholicChurch (to which her mother had converted and of which her brother later became a champion), and she remained a devout Catholic until her death, to the bafflement of...
Cultural formation Michael Field
Edith Cooper and Katharine Harris Bradley (known as the poet MF ) were each received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
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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.
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, 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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