Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Elizabeth Jennings
When she was thirteen or fourteen EJ first began to question the Roman Catholic faith in which she was being brought up. But she remained a faithful (though troubled) Catholic, always closely concerned with religion...
Cultural formation Lucas Malet
She apparently felt the Catholic Church to be female: the great mother church of Christendom .
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Cultural formation John Henry Newman
Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church , JHN began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters led them to suppose that the...
Cultural formation Marina Warner
Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl.
qtd. in
Williams, Elaine. “Marina Warner”. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World, edited by Sian Griffiths, Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 259-67.
261
From domestic activities with her Italian mother and maids in what she terms the basement world of female secrets, she learned about...
Cultural formation Emily Hickey
Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King , or by John Henry Newman , EH converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism , which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance.
qtd. in
Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More, 1927.
43, 41
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 169
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.
Cultural formation Judith Kazantzis
Her father 's family was Anglo-Irish, and though he liked sometimes to say he was Irish, the family were in every real sense English. They were highly educated professionals of the upper class (on the...
Cultural formation Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...
Cultural formation Pamela Frankau
After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record
Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann, 1961.
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and then from a vague indifference about religion, PF was received into the Roman Catholic Church .
Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann, 1961.
191
Cultural formation G. B. Stern
At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Cultural formation Frances Burney
FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
11
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
23
Cultural formation Edith Sitwell
ES was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Farm Street Church in Mayfair.
Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981.
318
Cultural formation Charlotte Godley
It seems her family was tolerant in religious matters. They were Anglicans , but when one of the brothers became both a Roman Catholic and a Jesuit priest, his conversion does not seem to have...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains
qtd. in
Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
38
, June 1991, pp. 165-72.
170
to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...
Cultural formation Dorothea Celesia
Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She...
Cultural formation Mary Wesley
MW and her husband converted together to Roman Catholicism , after only six sessions of instruction.
Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006.
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