| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | She came from an ancient, noble, Roman Catholic
family, who were English with some claim to be Welsh. Sheffield Grace
, who wrote comments on her famous letter in 1827, ascribed her qualities to her... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was her... |
| death | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
died of stomach cancer at her home of her daughter Lady Iddesleigh
, Parfetts House at Eversley Cross in Hampshire, having received the last sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church
. Iddesleigh, Elizabeth Northcote, Countess of et al. “List of Books by Mrs Belloc Lowndes, Foreword”. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947, edited by Susan Lowndes Marques and Susan Lowndes Marques, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. prelims, 1 - 3. 3 |
| death | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, died of tuberculosis, in the Catholic
religion, and in her daughter's words without any agony quietly as a child, being wholly spent by her disease. 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. 275 |
| death | Annie Tinsley | She was buried in the Roman Catholic
section of the Gravesend cemetery. Her husband outlived her by fourteen years. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930. 29-30 |
| death | Evelyn Waugh | He had just taken part in a festive family lunch following a local celebration by his friend Father Caraman
of the Roman Catholic
Mass in Latin, not English: that is, according to the old rite... |
| death | Dylan Thomas | DT
, Welsh poet, died of pneumonia in St Vincent's, a private hospital in New York run by Roman Catholic
nuns. He had been in a deep coma for four or five days. Lycett, Andrew. Dylan Thomas. A New Life. Overlook Press, 2003. 374 |
| Dedications | Mary Angela Dickens | In a move that reflected her turn to Catholicism
, MAD
published a devotional volume, Sanctuary, dedicated to MaryThe Mother of Jesus and featuring a preface by Charles Galton
, a Jesuit priest. Dickens, Mary Angela, and Father Charles S. J. Galton. Sanctuary. R & T Washbourne, 1916, xii, 137 pp. iii, v |
| Dedications | Jane Barker | It appeared though Curll
and Rivington
, dedicated to the Countess of Nottingham
(an Anglican
who was said to be a Catholic
sympathiser). Its frontispiece is an engraving of the Crucifixion. It has recently been... |
| Education | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Conan Doyle, later SACD
, attended private schools (paid for by uncles, not his parents), latterly as a boarder at Stonyhurst College
, a Jesuit-run, Roman Catholic
public school in England. He acquired a passion... |
| Education | Betty Miller | At this point Betty entered St Paul's School for Girls
and then (having fallen ill) had a convalescent year at a Catholic
boarding school cum sanatorium at Berck-Plage near Boulogne. Miller, Sarah, and Betty Miller. “Introduction”. On the Side of the Angels, Virago, 1985, p. vii - xviii. viii Sylvia Plath
later... |
| Education | Mary Ann Radcliffe | After a strong religious grounding at home, and after the idea of placing her in a French convent was abandoned because of the Seven Years War, MAR
received a good education at the Bar Convent |
| Education | Mavis Gallant | By the age of four, MG
was already boarding at Pensionnat Saint-Louis de Gonzague, a Jansenist convent in Montreal, on Sherbrooke Street East, the same street on which she lived. Wachtel, Eleanor. “‘From the Fifteenth District’ with author Mavis Gallant (2008 Encore)”. Writers & Company with Eleanor Wachtel. |
| Education | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | COCE
went to school at Upton Hall
, near Birkenhead in England, a Roman Catholic
convent school for girls founded in 1849 by nuns of the then fairly new teaching Order of the Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus |
| Education | Gillian Allnutt | GA
was educated at convent and grammar schools. Although her family were nominally Anglicans, she and her middle sister were enrolled in a Roman Catholic
convent school inLondon, which their mother had once... |
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