Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Louisa Stuart Costello
Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
The fact that her brother received Anglican baptism years after his birth suggests that the family may perhaps have been Catholics before that.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cultural formation Eleanor Farjeon
The influence of Denys Blakelock seems to have been decisive in EF 's reception into the Catholic Church in August 1951, not long after her honeymoon with the actor. This event, which she presented to...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Shirley
Born into the English gentry, ES was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic:
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.
that is to say, a member of the Church of England . Her eldest brother, for...
Cultural formation Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
HG, a Roman Catholic nun, was a Saxon, that is in modern terms a German. However, the first English scholar to discover her, Laurence Humfrey in the sixteenth century, so much wanted her to be...
Cultural formation Charlotte Dempster
CD grew up in the Church of Scotland , but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 after a decade living in France.
Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920.
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Cultural formation Una Troubridge
In 1929 UT began to question the Catholic Church's position on sexual inversion. She felt disillusioned by the Church authorities: I begin to doubt whether authority has any place where the invert may lay...
Cultural formation Ann Hatton
At some time before her death, AH converted to Catholicism (which had been her father's religion).
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
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Cultural formation Valentine Ackland
VA was received back into the Catholic Church on the anniversary of her first reception into it.
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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Cultural formation Leonora Carrington
LC was born to an Irish Catholic mother and a Protestant English father.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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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 Katherine Cecil Thurston
Both of KCT 's parents were Irish Catholics , and in comfortable financial circumstances. Her birth family was comprised of professionals and merchants, members of the rising middle class.
McCormack, Declan. “The Butterfly on the Wheel”. The Independent, 24 Sept. 2000.
24 September 2000
Her childhood home...
Cultural formation Adelaide Procter
AP may have converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism by this date; certainly she had by 1851.
Sources conflict on the date of AP 's conversion, most of them dating it in 1851. Bessie Rayner Parkes
Cultural formation Kate Marsden
During this period KM converted officially to Roman Catholicism . In 1895 she founded the St Francis Leper Guild (which is still active today as the St Francis Leprosy Guild ).
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...
Cultural formation Hélène Cixous
Early in life, HC also saw both of her parents suffer racism. At three years old, she discovered what being Jewish meant in Oran. When her father, a military officer during the war, took...

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