Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Daisy Ashford
DA was born into an English middle-class Roman Catholic family to middle-aged parents, and brought up in an affectionate home environment. She and her sisters were encouraged to read and write from an early age...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Charles
She was born into a supportive, professional English family.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray, 1896.
6, passim
Travel in France and exposure to the Oxford Movement made EC consider converting to the Roman Catholic Church later in life. However, she remained...
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.
Cultural formation Patricia Wentworth
Dora Amy Elles (later PW ) was a daughter of the Raj, an Englishwoman born into imperial military life in India while her father was serving in the British army there. She returned to England...
Cultural formation Mrs F. C. Patrick
She was an Irishwoman and, it seems, a Roman Catholic , although perhaps resident in England and certainly capable of trenchant criticism of the practices of the Catholic Church of earlier generations.
Cultural formation Viola Meynell
VM 's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics such as the poets Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore . She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's...
Cultural formation Aphra Behn
Her later Roman Catholicism (which some commentators dispute) may have had family roots, for there was some talk of her entering a convent.
Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin, 1971.
117-18
Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press, 1997.
33-4
Cultural formation Catherine Cookson
She was baptised a Roman Catholic , though her family did not practise: this was called being a wooden Catholic. The interdenominational hatred in the area was fierce and dangerous. After her first confession...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland
Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland , was finally received into the Catholic Church , years after her reading in the Catholic Fathers had first made her wish to do this.
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.
167 and n11
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.
7
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.
254
Cultural formation Dervla Murphy
Baptised and brought up a Catholic , DM took her Confirmation, First Confession, and First Communion with deep seriousness.
Murphy, Dervla. Wheels within Wheels. J. Murray, 1979.
63
She later suspected that she took her first step away from orthodox religion when various...
Cultural formation Carol Rumens
Born into the English lower middle class, Carol-Ann spent her early childhood in London, where her immediate family shared a gloomy, unwelcoming house owned by her grandparents in Forest Hill, living as [t]wo families...
Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Cultural formation Lady Eleanor Butler
LEB came from the Anglo-Irish nobility. This class, however, was at this time under a cloud. Her parents were Roman Catholic s, and her father's title had been attainted. In 1764 her brother renounced his...

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