Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation Ford Madox Ford
Born of mixed English and German heritage, and on both sides of middle-class families deeply involved in the practice of the arts, FMF converted to Roman Catholicism at the age of nineteen, but hardly seems...
Cultural formation Kate Marsden
Aspects of her identity shifted over time. KM was born into an English, professional, presumably white family of the upper-middle class, who lost their financial security because of her father's early death. Protestant for much...
Cultural formation Kathleen Raine
KR was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...
Cultural formation Claire Keegan
She was born into the Irish, Catholic , farming community.
CK is extremely reticent about her life, giving out almost no facts in public. Her story Safe, about a seventeen-year-old youngest daughter leaving her...
Cultural formation Anne Devlin
AD grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid.
Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, 2001, pp. 107-23.
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Her family heritage is Catholic ...
Cultural formation Alice Meynell
She said she joined the Catholic Church because of its administration of morals. Other Christian churches or sects . . . have the legislation of Christian morality but they do not enforce the law. The...
Cultural formation Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 Gillian Allnutt
Born into a nominally Anglican family of the middle or professional class, GA is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland
Cultural formation George Douglas
Returned to ordinary life, GD remained a practising, even a fervent Catholic .
Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton, 1981.
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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.
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Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998.
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Cultural formation Maud Gonne
MG 's enthusiasms led her in several successive directions in religion. In November 1891 she became a member of the Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn . On 17 February 1903, immediately before marrying John MacBride
Cultural formation Mary Howitt
MH was received into the Roman Catholic Church after receiving dispensations to keep using her English Bible and to be buried with her husband in the Protestant Cemetery.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
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Cultural formation Mary Basset
MB was a Roman Catholic and a humanist, like the rest of her English, professional-class, and unusually scholarly family.
Cultural formation Agnes Mary Clerke
AMC was presumably white and presumably (like her sister) Catholic ; she hailed from a well-connected land-owning and professional family in Ireland.
Huggins, Margaret Lindsay, Lady, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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