Roman Catholic Church

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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 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.
53
Cultural formation Medbh McGuckian
MMG is a Roman Catholic , and commented in a 25 June 1990 interview with Susan Shaw Seiler that relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Belfast are very different from what they were when...
Cultural formation Charlotte Despard
Protestantism was a central part of that family identity which she found oppressive. After her husband died she first took up spiritualism. then converted to Roman Catholicism , and later became a Theosophist.
Crawford, Elizabeth. The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge, 2001.
167
Cultural formation Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...
Cultural formation Christopher St John
At some point after CSJ met her long-time partner Edith Craig , she converted from her family's Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987.
389
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
250
Cultural formation Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism . She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons.
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988.
6, 19
Cultural formation John Henry Newman
Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church , JHN began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters led them to suppose that the...
Cultural formation Edith Sitwell
ES was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Farm Street Church in Mayfair.
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
318
Cultural formation Charlotte Godley
It seems her family was tolerant in religious matters. They were Anglicans , but when one of the brothers became both a Roman Catholic and a Jesuit priest, his conversion does not seem to have...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains
qtd. in
Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
38
, June 1991, pp. 165-72.
170
to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...
Cultural formation Mary Cowden Clarke
MCC was born into a professional, English family of European extraction (her father was half Italian and her mother half German) and Roman Catholic religion. Mary writes of her early, Catholic church attendance in terms...
Cultural formation Charlotte Guest
CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Jennings
When she was thirteen or fourteen EJ first began to question the Roman Catholic faith in which she was being brought up. But she remained a faithful (though troubled) Catholic, always closely concerned with religion...
Cultural formation Lucas Malet
She apparently felt the Catholic Church to be female: the great mother church of Christendom .
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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