Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Joseph Conrad
He was born into the gentry class, or rather at a level of Polish society which had something of that and something of the British nobility. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church and...
Cultural formation Iris Murdoch
Although brought up as a Protestant and confirmed while at school as an Anglican , IM later considered herself nothing more specific than a Christian fellow-traveller.
qtd. in
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
491
At more than one stage of her life...
Cultural formation Carol Rumens
Born into the English lower middle class, Carol-Ann spent her early childhood in London, where her immediate family shared a gloomy, unwelcoming house owned by her grandparents in Forest Hill, living as [t]wo families...
Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Cultural formation Lady Eleanor Butler
LEB came from the Anglo-Irish nobility. This class, however, was at this time under a cloud. Her parents were Roman Catholic s, and her father's title had been attainted. In 1764 her brother renounced his...
Cultural formation Kathleen Raine
KR was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...
Cultural formation Claire Keegan
She was born into the Irish, Catholic , farming community.
CK is extremely reticent about her life, giving out almost no facts in public. Her story Safe, about a seventeen-year-old youngest daughter leaving her...
Cultural formation Anne Askew
AA was a white Englishwoman from the gentry class. Though her grandparents were Roman Catholics , it seems that her father and others in her family favoured the Reformed or Protestant religion.
Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press, 1996.
xvii-xviii
Cultural formation Agnes Wenman
She belonged to the English gentry class, but within her class she belonged to a disadvantaged minority: she was, like her family, a recusant Catholic .
Cultural formation Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Frances Sarah Hoey
John Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and on her marriage FSH converted to Catholicism . Catholicism is not usually an issue in her fiction (with the exception of the anti-divorce novel Out of Court...
Cultural formation Aphra Behn
Her later Roman Catholicism (which some commentators dispute) may have had family roots, for there was some talk of her entering a convent.
Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin, 1971.
117-18
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
33-4
Cultural formation Catherine Cookson
She was baptised a Roman Catholic , though her family did not practise: this was called being a wooden Catholic. The interdenominational hatred in the area was fierce and dangerous. After her first confession...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , was finally received into the Catholic Church , years after her reading in the Catholic Fathers had first made her wish to do this.
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.
167 and n11
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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Cultural formation Maud Gonne
MG 's enthusiasms led her in several successive directions in religion. In November 1891 she became a member of the Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn . On 17 February 1903, immediately before marrying John MacBride

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