Roman Catholic Church

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Family and Intimate relationships Monica Dickens
MD married Roy O. Stratton , a US naval commander, in Princeton, USA, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic church which would not allow a Protestant (Stratton) to be married in its sanctuary.
Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann, 1978.
128-9
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Family and Intimate relationships Georgiana Chatterton
Edward Heneage Dering , second husband of GC , converted to Roman Catholicism .
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
152
“The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Family and Intimate relationships Gertrude Stein
Stein's partner Alice Toklas converted to Catholicism in 1957, allegedly because she liked the idea of meeting up with Stein in heaven.
Castle, Terry. “Husbands and Wives”. London Review of Books, Vol.
29
, No. 24, 13 Dec. 2007, pp. 10-16.
14
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 Florence Dixie
The widowed mother of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD ) converted to Roman Catholicism and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor ) with her younger children, lest their guardians should...
Family and Intimate relationships Evelyn Waugh
The marriage lasted only a little over a year. EW filed for divorce on 3 September 1929, after his wife was unfaithful to him. The rapid end of this marriage shook him badly. Since he...
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 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 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 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 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 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...
Friends, Associates Florence Nightingale
Her notoriety (following the war and from her later work) placed FN in the society of many important contemporaries, including every Prime Minister of her time.
Dolan, Josephine A. Nursing In Society: A Historical Perspective. Saunders, 1973.
176
She maintained a correspondence with Cardinal Manning ...

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