Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation Margaret Bryan
On the publication of her first book, the Critical Review implied that some of her opinions sounded like those of a Catholic . Defending herself, MB claimed to be irreproachably orthodox, that is Anglican ...
Cultural formation Charlotte Despard
She converted to Catholicism less than a year after her husband's death, which made her a co-religionist of those she now set out to help.
Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson, 1980.
63
Around 1909, after attending a series of lectures by...
Cultural formation Catharine Trotter
CT was a middle-class woman of Scottish parentage, with aristocratic connections and Roman Catholic heritage on her mother's side.
Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002.
3
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.
163
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 Florence Marryat
A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.
Cultural formation Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism . She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons.
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988.
6, 19
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 Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...
Cultural formation Olivia Clarke
Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...
Cultural formation Queen Elizabeth I
Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...
Cultural formation Sarah Waters
SW grew up as a Roman Catholic in the British lower middle class (with English and Welsh roots, describing herself as Welsh). Like many others, her family had risen in the world, since her grandparents...
Cultural formation Anne Dacier
Shortly before the revoking of the Edict of Nantes on 22 October (when as Protestants they would have lost their claim to tolerance and religious freedom) AD and her husband were received into the Roman Catholic Church
Cultural formation Constantia Grierson
CG was an Irishwoman. She apparently disliked talking of her early life. All she would tell Laetitia Pilkington was that her parents were poor illiterate Country People.
qtd. in
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56.
36
Illiterate meant merely uneducated. Though this sounds...
Cultural formation Naomi Jacob
Meanwhile in 1914, at a low ebb in her life, NJ converted to Roman Catholicism . She took instruction in the faith after reading Confessions of a Convert by R. H. Benson (a homosexual whose...

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