Roman Catholic Church

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships Germaine Greer
GG 's mother, born Margaret Mary Lafrank , known as Peggy, worked as a milliner and as a performer before she was married. Since she was a Roman Catholic , the Protestant man she married...
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Rossetti
CR 's engagement to James Collinson ended, some time after he had returned to the Roman Catholic faith .
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
113
Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable, 1981.
55-7
Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996.
xi
Family and Intimate relationships John Oliver Hobbes
One of her most notable personal and professional relationships was with the novelist George Moore . The pair met in 1893, and Moore appears to have fallen in love with the then-still-married Hobbes. A break...
Family and Intimate relationships Philip Larkin
At HullPL established terms of easy friendship with the then small group of mostly female, young, and unmarried library staff. From the end of 1960 he developed a close or romantic friendship, eventually a...
Family and Intimate relationships Vera Brittain
VB named her daughter after Charlotte Brontë 's character. The child Shirley Catlin was already a Roman Catholic , a role she later combined with that of social democrat. She came second to Elizabeth Taylor
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Roper
The family of Thomas More were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Countess Cowper
MCC was so unfortunate as to have a great many Relations (most of them Roman Catholics ) who joined the Jacobite rebellion of 1715.
Cowper, Mary, Countess. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864.
56-57
When the head of the Clavering family, a man in...
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Justice
Re-united with her younger daughter, EJ found that the girl was ill, and had been converted to Roman Catholicism in France. She took care of her daughter and re-converted her to the Church of England
Family and Intimate relationships Muriel Spark
The close of MS 's erotic relationship with Howard Sergeant (with whom, however, her friendship continued for a while) coincided with a gradual movement towards Derek Stanford , a fellow-member of postwar London bohemia, who...
Family and Intimate relationships Harriett Mozley
HM became finally estranged from her brother, John Henry Newman (after years of intellectual argument), when he converted to Roman Catholicism .
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
33, 163
Family and Intimate relationships Harriett Mozley
Harriett's eldest brother, John Henry Newman , became first a clergyman and national religious leader of the Anglican Church , then a Catholic , and eventually a Cardinal.
Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962.
xvi
In 1828 John wrote to HM
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon , was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Lucy Herbert
Lucy's father, William Herbert , owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Basset
Despite her personal achievements, Margaret Roper's fame has and to some extent still does rest primarily on her status as the eldest and favourite daughter of Thomas More , Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII
Friends, Associates Catharine Trotter
Thomas Burnet of Kemnay wrote the first of his surviving letters to CT ; he was at this date thinking of her as a potential wife, and was concerned to convert her from Roman Catholicism .
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
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