Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation Helen Dunmore
HD 's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic Englishwoman.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books, 1991.
167, 187, 34
Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW converted to Catholicism . He was received into the Church on 29 September that year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Hope Mirrlees
HM quietly converted to Roman Catholicism .
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
3: 268
Cultural formation Jane Squire
She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic , who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Jane Owen
JO , a member of a family whose Established Church forebears had acquired wealth a couple of generations back, was a fervent Catholic apparently from her birth, at a time when to be a Catholic...
Cultural formation Blanche Warre Cornish
BWC 's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church , and...
Cultural formation Mary Ward
MW was a pious Catholic as a child: she was said to shun sports and pastimes, preferring to read spiritual books, to perform exercises of penance like wearing a rough, uncomfortable girdle, and to humble...
Cultural formation E. Nesbit
EN was born in the English middle class (though she had some Irish and Swedish blood) and brought up as an Anglican . She became a socialist and a feminist, although with some reservations and...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Inchbald
She came from a family of Catholic farmers, middle-class people who were liked and respected by the local gentry.
Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987.
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Cultural formation E. M. Delafield
EMD grew up in an upper-class family. Her father was descended from French Catholic aristocrats (whose title was not officially recognised in England), and her mother from English squires. She was given a strict Victorian...
Cultural formation Georgiana Fullerton
GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Wiseman, Nicholas, editor. The Dublin Review. Burns and Oates.
20 (October 1888): 324
Cultural formation Kate O'Brien
Though KOB 's surname was an ancient name of a royal house in Ireland, she was born into an often-forgotten segment of nineteenth-century society: the Irish Catholic middle class. She calls her Irishness my accidental...
Cultural formation Christina Rossetti
She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...
Cultural formation Bessie Head
Brought up by a Roman Catholic foster-mother, sent to an Anglican mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next,
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. 2nd edition, Wits University Press, 2007.
20, 25
she wrote later that for years...
Cultural formation Catherine Byron
CB 's mother practised strict Catholic ism while her father, who came from a fundamentalist dissenting home, professed agnostic beliefs. Raised and educated in the Catholic faith, CB married an English Roman Catholic. In regard...

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