Dickens, Mary Angela, and Father Charles S. J. Galton. Sanctuary. R & T Washbourne.
iii, v
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Dedications | Mary Angela Dickens | In a move that reflected her turn to Catholicism
, MAD
published a devotional volume, Sanctuary, dedicated to MaryThe Mother of Jesus and featuring a preface by Charles Galton
, a Jesuit priest. Dickens, Mary Angela, and Father Charles S. J. Galton. Sanctuary. R & T Washbourne. iii, v |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Dixie | The widowed mother
of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD
) converted to Roman Catholicism
and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor
) with her younger children, lest their guardians should... |
Cultural formation | Florence Dixie | FD
belonged to the British nobility (with a Scottish father and English mother), but her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism
(as well as other family circumstances) made her experience different from most members of her... |
Cultural formation | Florence Dixie | Two of the older children willingly followed their mother into the Roman Catholic
Church. Florence and her twin went through the terrors of a first confession, but as she later put it, [h]uman nature does... |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
sealed his conversion from Roman Catholicism
(probably long since complete) by being ordained a priest of the Church of England
at St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was later to become Dean. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic
. He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his... |
Cultural formation | George Douglas | |
Author summary | George Douglas | Lady Gertrude Georgina Douglas (later Stock) wrote during the later nineteenth century under the name of George Douglas
. She used the novel both as a means of earning money and as a vehicle for... |
Cultural formation | George Douglas | GD
was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism
, which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced. |
Cultural formation | George Douglas | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | George Douglas | Linked Lives features another orphan heroine, the well-born, highly romantic Mabel Forrester. The purpose of the novel is to show Mabel's progress towards embracing the Roman Catholic
faith. Mabel, however, virtually shares the position of... |
Literary responses | George Douglas | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Dowriche | Critic Elaine V. Beilin
discerns the influence on AD
's text of John Foxe
's Actes and Monuments, 1563. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 172 |
Cultural formation | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Brought up and educated as a RomanCatholic
, SACD
lost hisfaith before he left school. He later adopted a fairly eclectic form of spiritualism. |
Education | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Conan Doyle, later SACD
, attended private schools (paid for by uncles, not his parents), latterly as a boarder at Stonyhurst College
, a Jesuit-run, Roman Catholic
public school in England. He acquired a passion... |
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