Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | Towards the end of this period of involvement with Catholicism
, FN
received a second call from God, directing her to devote her life entirely to him. She apparently experienced similar calls in 1850, 1853... |
| Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | |
| Cultural formation | Leonora Carrington | |
| Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic
. He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his... |
| Cultural formation | Florence Marryat | A Roman Catholic
, FM
also developed an interest in spiritualism. |
| Cultural formation | Jane Barker | Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England
(into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism
, to which as an... |
| Cultural formation | Kate Chopin | KC
had a cultural heritage which was both French Creole (her mother's family had come to Louisiana centuries earlier from northern France) and Irish. She was a presumably white American, of a well-to-do... |
| Cultural formation | Ray Strachey | |
| Cultural formation | Teresia Constantia Phillips | She was born of a well-connected gentry or professional family on her father's side, of Welsh extraction (presumably white). She became déclassée through her career as a prostitute. It is not clear where her Roman Catholic |
| Cultural formation | May Laffan | She belonged to the Irish middle class. A Roman Catholic
, she came from a religiously mixed household (highly unusual in deeply sectarian nineteenth-century Ireland). Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005. 13 |
| Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | Alice Thompson (later AM
) converted to Catholicism
at Malvern, where she was recuperating from an illness. The old Dictionary of National Biography placed AM
's conversion four years after this. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981. 35 |
| Cultural formation | Frances Boothby | She clearly sprang from an educated segment of society, probably the gentry. It seems fairly certain that she was a Roman Catholic
. |
| Cultural formation | Michael Field | Edith Cooper
and Katharine Harris Bradley
(known as the poet MF
) were each received into the Roman Catholic
Church. Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922. 53 |
| Cultural formation | Ali Smith | AS
's Catholic
childhood was an apparent anomaly “Ali Smith interview”. Noted Listener Archive, 19 Nov. 2011. Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, 2006, pp. 186-29. 189 |
| Cultural formation | Rumer Godden | Late in life RG
became a Roman Catholic
, as did her daughters and their husbands. She was converted by friendship with the Jesuit Archbishop Roberts
, formerly Archbishop of Bombay. She had formed a... |
Timeline
16 June 1846: Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory...
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16 June 1846
Pius IX
became Pope after the death of Gregory XVI
on 1 June 1846. The new Pope's election was a victory for liberals in the Roman Catholic Church
over the conservatives.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
115
“The Catholic Encyclopedia”. New Advent.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
1094
Bury, John Bagnell, and Frederick Clifton Grant. History of the Papacy in the Nineteenth Century: Liberty and Authority in the Roman Catholic Church. Editor Murray, Robert Henry, Augmented edition, Schocken Books, 1964.
vi
From 1848: Between this year and October 1996 (when...
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From 1848
Between this year and October 1996 (when the last one closed), over 30,000 women and girls were virtually imprisoned in Ireland'sMagdalene Asylums
for sexual misconduct or other perceived transgressions against the conservative moral code...
1848: The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters arrived...
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1848
The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters
arrived in Ireland, and the first Magdalene Asylums
were established.
Raftery, Mary, and Eoin O’Sullivan. Suffer the Little Children: The Inside Story of Ireland’s Industrial Schools. Continuum, 2001.
288-9
O’Toole, Fintan. “The Sisters of No Mercy”. Guardian Unlimited, 16 Feb. 2003.
6
17 July 1851: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...
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17 July 1851
John Lingard
, historian and Roman Catholic
priest, died at Hornby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...
National or international item
8 August 1851
The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England
) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger
(1790-1862).
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
97
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Blamire
1868: A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing...
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1868
A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing the Depravity of the Romish
Priesthood was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 25 August 1857.
Hirsch, Afua. “How to police popslash”. The Guardian, 4 July 2009, pp. 28-9.
29
24 October 1868: With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton,...
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24 October 1868
With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton
, novelist and journalist Frances Margaret Taylor
established, in rented rooms off Fleet Street, London, the religious community that would become the Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God
26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...
National or international item
26 July 1869
The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone
disestablished the Church of Ireland
and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords
.
“Gladstone and Ireland 1868-74”. A Web of English History: The Peel Web: Irish Affairs.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
13 September 1896: Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical Apostolicae...
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13 September 1896
Pope Leo XIII
published his encyclical Apostolicae Curae, which formally rejected Anglican ordinations within the Roman Catholic Church
as absolutely null and utterly void.
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins, 1984, 3 vols.
Edwards 284
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins, 1984, 3 vols.
284
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
325-6
1906: Josephine Ward published her religious attack...
Women writers item
1906
Josephine Ward
published her religious attack on Modernism, Out of Due Time: A Novel.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
1912: A religious novel by Mary Dickens, The Debtor,...
Women writers item
1912
A religious novel by Mary Dickens
, The Debtor, was published.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
21 August 1913: The Lock-Out Strike began in Dublin when...
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21 August 1913
The Lock-Out Strike began in Dublin when leading businessman William Martin Murphy
summarily dismissed two hundred parcels workers from his Dublin Tramways Company
on the grounds that they belonged to the Irish Transport Union
.
Yeates, Padraig. Lockout: Dublin, 1911. Gill and Macmillan, 2000.
“New book on the 1913 Dublin lockout: The divine gospel of discontent”. swp.ie: Socialist Workers Party in Ireland.
16 May 1920: Joan of Arc was canonised as a saint of the...
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16 May 1920
Joan of Arc
was canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
.
Sackville-West, Vita. Saint Joan of Arc. Cobden-Sanderson, 1936.
title-page
1926: Soon after Chatto and Windus published The...
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1926
Soon after Chatto and Windus
published The Cantab by Shane Leslie
, the book was censured by the Roman Catholic Church
, and Leslie (a Catholic himself, who had been critical of James Joyce
's...
1926: Frank Sheed and Masie Ward founded Sheed...
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1926
Frank Sheed
and Masie Ward
founded Sheed and Ward Limited
at 31 Paternoster Row, London, to publish and circulate Catholic
thought.
Rose, Jonathan, and Patricia J. Anderson, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 112. Gale Research, 1991.
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