Roman Catholic Church

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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 Michèle Roberts
She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR implicitly admitted to being middle-class now.
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989.
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Daughter of a French, Roman Catholic
Cultural formation Julia Kavanagh
Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
Throughout her life (which she said was too quiet to be of interest to the public) she...
Cultural formation Valentine Ackland
As a child, VA was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example.
Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus, 1985.
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Later in life she became a Roman Catholic , struggled with her Catholicism, and eventually became a Quaker .
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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Cultural formation Anne Carson
AC 's mother was a Roman Catholic and the two attended church together for much of her childhood.
Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview With Anne Carson”. Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 89, 1 June 2012– 2025, pp. 29-53.
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AC felt a great comfort in attending mass with her mother and remembers, fondly, the smell...
Cultural formation George Douglas
After her mother 's conversion Lady Gertrude Douglas (later GD ) lost no time in becoming a Catholic herself. She was received into the Church as soon as she arrived in France.
Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
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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 .
Cultural formation Fanny Kingsley
FK was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic...
Cultural formation Alice Meynell
Alice Thompson (later AM ) converted to Catholicism at Malvern, where she was recuperating from an illness.
The old Dictionary of National Biography placed AM 's conversion four years after this.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House, 1981.
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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...
Cultural formation Agnes Giberne
AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...
Cultural formation Frances Boothby
She clearly sprang from an educated segment of society, probably the gentry. It seems fairly certain that she was a Roman Catholic .
Cultural formation Michael Field
Edith Cooper and Katharine Harris Bradley (known as the poet MF ) were each received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
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Cultural formation Anne Sexton
AS has been discussed as a religious writer who, slightly ahead of her time, intuited the need for a feminist revision of patriarchal monotheism. She centred a play on the Roman Catholic Mass, and some...

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...

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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...

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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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