Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Cultural formation Antonia White
Years after she had left the Roman Catholic Church , AW reconverted to it, just before Christmas.
Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985.
130-1
Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
256
Cultural formation Antonia White
When Eirene, later Antonia, was seven years old, her father converted to Catholicism —a decision that had a profound effect on her. She too became a Catholic and remained a nominal one all her life...
Cultural formation Oscar Wilde
In the aftermath of his trial, OW was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism .
Textual Features Romer Wilson
The work is often described as epistolary; it is written in the first person, in letters which are varied with sketches that read almost like diary entries.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Shanks, Edward. “Romer Wilson: Some Observations”. The London Mercury, Vol.
22
, No. 130, Aug. 1930, pp. 343-9.
346
Through the letters and sketches of the...
Cultural formation Harriette Wilson
HW was received into the Roman Catholic Church under the religious name of Mary Magdalen.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
294
Literary responses Ethel Wilson
Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan 's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Jeanette Winterson
Winterson conjures up an England ruled by a king, James I , obsessed with stamping out the twin evils of witchcraft and Catholicism . She identifies the original group on the hill with poor women...
Textual Features Ellen Wood
In a subplot Adeline de Castella breaks with her beloved Frederick St John when her Catholic father forbids her to marry him. The emotion of their parting causes her to break a blood vessel, after...

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