Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Roman Catholic Church
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Agnes Wenman | She belonged to the English gentry class, but within her class she belonged to a disadvantaged minority: she was, like her family, a recusant Catholic
. |
| Cultural formation | Coventry Patmore | |
| Cultural formation | Frances Sarah Hoey | John Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and on her marriage FSH
converted to Catholicism
. Catholicism is not usually an issue in her fiction (with the exception of the anti-divorce novel Out of Court... |
| Cultural formation | Aphra Behn | AB
seems to have converted before the end of her life to Catholicism
, which was in tune with her political allegiances. A poem on the execution of Lord Stafford
(written soon after this event... |
| Cultural formation | Catherine Cookson | After the war, CC
's search for religious belief involved her for a while in spiritualism. She believed that on one occasion when she and her husband lost themselves in a country lane they had... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, arranged the abduction her two youngest sons, Henry and Patrick
, at their own wish, from Great Tew to travel to Europe and be educated as Catholics
. Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 165-82. 170 Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 8, 181 Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75. 259 |
| Cultural formation | Clotilde Graves | Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG
converted to Catholicism
in 1896. |
| Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | After converting to Roman Catholicism
the previous year, MH
was confirmed in that faith by the Prince-Bishop of Brixen (now Bressanone, a town in the Italian Tyrol). Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 225 |
| Cultural formation | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
was born into the Roman CatholicChurch
(to which her mother had converted and of which her brother later became a champion), and she remained a devout Catholic until her death, to the bafflement of... |
| Cultural formation | Elma Napier | EN
was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian
, the family attended a Presbyterian
kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
| Cultural formation | Antonia Fraser | Antonia converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a... |
| Cultural formation | Naomi Royde-Smith | Born into the professional middle class, NRS
had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins. Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol. 218 , No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21. |
| Cultural formation | Radclyffe Hall | With the support of her older lover, Ladye
, RH
converted to Catholicism
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 81-2 |
| Cultural formation | F. Tennyson Jesse |
Timeline
10 July 1994: Pope John Paul II published a letter to the...
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10 July 1994
Pope John Paul II
published a letter to the world's women admitting that the Church
had discriminated against them, but maintaining his reactionary stance on gender issues.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Summer 2005: News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction...
Women writers item
Summer 2005
News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year, Judith Kelly
's Rock Me Gently, included passages almost verbally identical with passages by other authors.
Leith, Sam. “Sounds familiar? When ’memories’ seem to spring from other literary sources”. Telegraph.co.uk, 6 Aug. 2005.
21 April 2011: Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman...
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21 April 2011
Hundreds of Anglicans
converted to the Roman Catholic Church
, with the blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, because they were not prepared to countenance the consecration of women bishops.
“News”. BBC Radio Four.
April 2012: The Leadership Conference of Women Religious,...
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April 2012
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious
, which represents about 80 percent of American Roman Catholic
nuns, was sharply reprimanded by the Vatican
's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
for serious doctrinal problems.
Pullella, Philip. “Vatican tells U. S. nuns its doctrine is supremeEdmonton Journal, 13 June 2012, p. A21.
25 April 2013: A bill to end succession to the crown based...
National or international item
25 April 2013
A bill to end succession to the crown based on male primogeniture was passed by the British parliament.
“Law ending exclusively male royal succession now law”. BBC News UK, 25 Apr. 2013.
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