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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...
Cultural formation Florence Dixie
FD belonged to the British nobility (with a Scottish father and English mother), but her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism (as well as other family circumstances) made her experience different from most members of her...
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 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 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
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 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
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...
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
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 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...
Education Elizabeth Grymeston
EG must have been well educated; Retha Warnicke suspects she may have been taught by Jesuits. In adulthood she was well read, being familiar with the Vulgate Bible (the Latin translation ascribed to St Jerome...
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 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...

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