Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 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, 1985–2024, 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 .
It...
Cultural formation Dora Greenwell
Presumably white, DG was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as...
Cultural formation Mary Howitt
The family was somewhat rigidly Quaker . As a girl MH entertained rebellious feelings about the severity of their religion, their ban on stylish clothes and artistic beauty. Early in her marriage she felt drawn...
Cultural formation Anne Askew
It seems AA was arrested twice this year, for speaking against the Sacrament. The second time was on 13 June.
Wilson, Derek. A Tudor Tapestry: Men, Women and Society in Reformation England. Heinemann, 1972.
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She was questioned by Edmund Bonner , Bishop of London, but later acquitted for...
Cultural formation John Dryden
Dryden parallelled his former switch in political allegiance in probably 1685, with a switch of religious allegiance, converting from Anglicanism to Catholicism . He was vulnerable to charges of time-serving since he did this at...
Cultural formation Naomi Royde-Smith
In about 1940 both NRS and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism , a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy (while she and her...
Cultural formation Radclyffe Hall
RH 's belief in spiritualism was in conflict with her Catholicism . The Catholic Church did not condone spiritualism and she could not find a confessor who approved of her meetings with the medium she...
Cultural formation Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic priest, but found it unsatisfying.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
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Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Having read an essay by Thomas Carlyle during the Christmas...
Cultural formation Hilary Mantel
Her parents—Margaret Foster and Henry Thompson —were of IrishCatholic extraction, descendants of immigrants who had come to work for the textile mills. They were working class of little education, with distant, painful memories...
Cultural formation Aphra Behn
AB seems to have converted before the end of her life to Catholicism , which was in tune with her political allegiances. A poem on the execution of Lord Stafford (written soon after this event...
Cultural formation Catherine Cookson
After the war, CC 's search for religious belief involved her for a while in spiritualism. She believed that on one occasion when she and her husband lost themselves in a country lane they had...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , arranged the abduction her two youngest sons, Henry and Patrick , at their own wish, from Great Tew to travel to Europe and be educated as Catholics .
Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 165-82.
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Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages.
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Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75.
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Cultural formation Selima Hill
She came from a well-educated, Bohemian family of atheists who, however, sent her to a Roman Catholic school.
Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol.
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, 1 June–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 39-40.
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