Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation Lucy Cary
Lady Falkland 's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants...
Cultural formation Graham Greene
In 1926 GG converted to Roman Catholicism at the insistence of his fiancée, Vivien Dayrell-Browning . His baptism was a banal affair at a dark cathedral in Nottingham, full of inferior statues.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Cultural formation George Douglas
GD was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism , which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced.
Cultural formation Edna Lyall
Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904.
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EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...
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 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 Mary Basset
MB was a Roman Catholic and a humanist, like the rest of her English, professional-class, and unusually scholarly family.
Cultural formation Agnes Mary Clerke
AMC was presumably white and presumably (like her sister) Catholic ; she hailed from a well-connected land-owning and professional family in Ireland.
Huggins, Margaret Lindsay, Lady, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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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 Gertrude Thimelby
GT was a member of an English gentry family who became Roman Catholics during her childhood. Her minority religious allegiance shaped her life.
Cultural formation Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic , Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts...
Cultural formation Alexander Pope
Since he was born and faithfully remained a Catholic , he was excluded from university, from government jobs, and latterly from residing in London or owning a horse worth more than a certain sum.
Cultural formation Dante Alighieri
He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party...
Cultural formation Ford Madox Ford
Born of mixed English and German heritage, and on both sides of middle-class families deeply involved in the practice of the arts, FMF converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of nineteen, but hardly seems...
Cultural formation Muriel Spark
Though she attended a Presbyterian school, MS was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested
Spark, Muriel. “My Conversion”. Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, G. K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, 1992, pp. 24-28.
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in the scriptures and in Christ as a romantic figure, but subscribed to no religious faith. She says...

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