Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Editorial Materials”. Rousseau Religious Writings, edited by Ronald Grimsley, Clarendon Press, 1970.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Annie Besant | AB
was confirmed an Anglican
in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism
, but the writing of the Oxford Movement
convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After... |
| Cultural formation | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Brought up a Geneva Protestant, he converted at the age of sixteen to Roman Catholicism
, turned back to Protestantism in his forties, and eventually evolved his own belief in natural religion. |
| Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant
and her father a Catholic
. They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage... |
| Cultural formation | Jennifer Johnston | She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice. qtd. in Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen, 1986. 52 |
| Cultural formation | Hilary Mantel | At seven, [l]ike every other little Catholic
body, she was confirmed and made her first Communion. About this time, while endeavouring to achieve holiness, she felt her endeavour undermined or reversed by a startlingly mundane... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth De la Pasture | She came from an upper-class English family: her great-grandfather was a baronet. She was presumably a Roman Catholic
, since she married two Catholic husbands. |
| Cultural formation | E. M. Delafield | At twenty-one, having come of age, Edmée de la Pasture
(later EMD
) entered a Catholic
convent, the mother house of an enclosed order in Belgium. Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988. 12 |
| Cultural formation | Marcel Proust | MP
was born into an upper-middle class family. His father, Adrian
, was a Catholic
doctor and his mother, born Jeanne Weils
, was a wealthy Jewish heiress. When she died, Marcel inherited aproximately 1,350,000... |
| Cultural formation | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Craigie (JOH
) entered the Roman Catholic Church
at a ceremony at St James's Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London. She now assumed the name Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie. Harding, Mildred Davis. Air-Bird in the Water. Associated University Presses, 1996. 77 |
| Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | AK
was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church
three years after her marriage, at least in part to avoid the duties of a vicar's wife. Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers, 2006. 36 Maitland, Edward. Anna Kingsford. George Redway, 1896, 2 vols. 1: 14-15 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Cultural formation | Catherine Byron | When Pope Paul VI
issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth), a prohibition on all forms of birth control, CB
and her husband
(and her mother
) left the Catholic Church |
| Cultural formation | Mary McCarthy | She was born into the white American middle class. One of her grandparents was Jewish. The Catholic
girlhood which she later wrote about was inflicted on her by her devout maternal grandparents. |
| Cultural formation | Jane Squire | An accusation was brought against JA of being a Popish recusant convict, that is of practising the outlawed Roman Catholic
religion. The charge (which was dismissed) probably had something to do with her ongoing court case. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Cultural formation | Georgiana Chatterton | Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England
clergyman, GC
came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 7-19 |
| Cultural formation | Daphne Du Maurier |
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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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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