Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation John Donne
JD sealed his conversion from Roman Catholicism (probably long since complete) by being ordained a priest of the Church of England at St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was later to become Dean.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Harriette Wilson
HW was received into the Roman Catholic Church under the religious name of Mary Magdalen.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Cultural formation Dora Sigerson
DS grew up in a highly-educated, intellectual, Irish-Catholic family. Both her parents were writers, as was her sister. Her childhood home was a centre of intellectual activity in Dublin, and prominent Irish literary...
Cultural formation Jane Barker
JB converted to Catholicism (as her poems relate), and to its attendant difficulties and discrimination.
King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol.
21
, No. 3, Nov. 1997, pp. 16-38.
21-2
Myers, Joanne. “Jane Barker’s Conversion and the Forms of Religious Experience”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.
30
, No. 3, 1 Mar.–31 May 2018, pp. 369-93.
369
Cultural formation Germaine Greer
Confirmed as a Roman Catholic as a child, GG at fourteen was into fasting and kneeling in prayer in the church for hours on end, in a fervour which she later identified as sexual. Her...
Cultural formation Caroline Chisholm
Near the time of her marriage, CC converted to Catholicism , her husband's faith. From this point onwards she remained a devout Catholic.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
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Cultural formation Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
When she was reduced to looking for work as a governess she found it a disadvantage to be not a member of the Church of England.
O’Conor Eccles, Charlotte. “The Experience of a Woman Journalist”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
153
, June 1893, pp. 830-8.
153 (June 1893): 837
Cultural formation Dervla Murphy
Baptised and brought up a Catholic , DM took her Confirmation, First Confession, and First Communion with deep seriousness.
Murphy, Dervla. Wheels within Wheels. J. Murray, 1979.
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She later suspected that she took her first step away from orthodox religion when various...
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 Ann Hatton
At some time before her death, AH converted to Catholicism (which had been her father's religion).
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
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Cultural formation Louisa Stuart Costello
Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
The fact that her brother received Anglican baptism years after his birth suggests that the family may perhaps have been Catholics before that.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cultural formation Eleanor Farjeon
The influence of Denys Blakelock seems to have been decisive in EF 's reception into the Catholic Church in August 1951, not long after her honeymoon with the actor. This event, which she presented to...
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 Marcel Proust
MP was born into an upper-middle class family. His father, Adrian , was a Catholic doctor and his mother, born Jeanne Weils , was a wealthy Jewish heiress. When she died, Marcel inherited aproximately 1,350,000...
Cultural formation John Oliver Hobbes
Pearl Craigie (JOH ) entered the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony at St James's Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London. She now assumed the name Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie.
Harding, Mildred Davis. Air-Bird in the Water. Associated University Presses, 1996.
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