Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation Catharine Burton
Her parents, members of the English yeoman class (farmers who worked their own small piece of land themselves), were devout Catholics . This meant that they belonged to a minority to whom various civil rights...
Cultural formation Julia Kavanagh
Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Throughout her life (which she said was too quiet to be of interest to the public) she...
Cultural formation Florence Marryat
A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.
Cultural formation Emily Gerard
She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church , which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism , EG and...
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.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican , EW renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span&gt”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0.
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Cultural formation G. B. Stern
At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Cultural formation Gillian Allnutt
Born into a nominally Anglican family of the middle or professional class, GA is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland
Cultural formation Elizabeth Charles
She was born into a supportive, professional English family.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray.
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Travel in France and exposure to the Oxford Movement made EC consider converting to the Roman Catholic Church later in life. However, she remained...
Cultural formation Fanny Kingsley
FK was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic...
Cultural formation Daphne Du Maurier
DDM had faith in a kind of spiritual life which included the conviction that there was life after death, but did not subscribe to any formal religion, even though she kept a Catholic missal by...
Cultural formation Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...
Cultural formation Sally Purcell
Although in her student days she practised witchy activities like casting spells, she was, says Marina Warner (the recipient of an unsuccessful spell to cure a painful unrequited love), a quietly practising Catholic most of...
Cultural formation Oscar Wilde
In the aftermath of his trial, OW was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism .
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...

Timeline

4 April 1687: James II's Abolition of the Test Act (a change...

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4 April 1687

James II 's Abolition of the Test Act (a change which was also called the Declaration of Indulgence) extended freedom of worship without penalty to Catholics and Dissenting sects; but it remained in force only...

11 April 1687: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, A...

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11 April 1687

John Dryden 's The Hind and the Panther, A Poem, In Three Parts, was licensed for print: a vindication of the Catholic Church against the Church of England which, unusually, takes the form of...

February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...

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February 1689 to October 1791

The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II (who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange (who had assumed...

12 July 1690: William III heavily defeated James II at...

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12 July 1690

William III heavily defeated James II at the battle of the Boyne in Ireland, in which 62,000 men fought.

12 July 1691: At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway,...

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12 July 1691

At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway, William III 's forces in Ireland (having just taken the town of Athlone with fearful destruction) won a decisive victory over those of James II ...

17 September 1695: The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics...

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17 September 1695

The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics restricted Catholic education rights: this produced the emergence in Ireland of the celebrated, and mythologized, hedge schools.

1704: A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman...

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1704

A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman Catholic estates in Ireland from descending by primogeniture to the eldest son; unless that eldest converted to Protestantism, the estate was to be shared equally among all...

1 May 1746: A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament...

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1 May 1746

A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament in 1745 declared that from this date any marriage of a Protestant solemnised by a Catholic priest (whether to a Catholic or Protestant) was null and void.

March 1763: At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic...

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March 1763

At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic farm workers rose in protest against working conditions and evictions.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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By 1767: Of the thirty-seven county towns in England,...

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By 1767

Of the thirty-seven county towns in England, twelve had public Catholicmass-houses and at nine more a priest celebrated regular mass in his home.

5 February 1771: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...

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5 February 1771

John Lingard , historian and Roman Catholic priest, was born at Winchester in Hampshire.

15 February 1782: Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met...

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15 February 1782

Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met at Dungannon and adopted resolutions in favour of Ireland's independence from England and relaxation of the Penal Laws.

11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...

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11 May 1792

Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics , Presbyterian s, Quakers , and others.

18 February 1793: A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts...

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18 February 1793

A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts of the infamous Penal Laws operative in Ireland. Either J. S. Anna Liddiard or her husband wrote in 1819 that this was the source of the improvement...

13 April 1829: The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received...

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13 April 1829

The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received the royal assent, allowing limited civil rights, for the first time, to Catholics in Britain.

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