Roman Catholic Church

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Cultural formation John Henry Newman
The ex-Anglican leader and Tractarian JHN completed his conversion by being received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.
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Cultural formation Valentine Ackland
VA was received back into the Catholic Church on the anniversary of her first reception into it.
Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988.
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Cultural formation Leonora Carrington
LC was born to an Irish Catholic mother and a Protestant English father.
Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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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 Ray Strachey
Born into the English professional class, RS related closely to her American forebears. She and her sister were baptised as Catholics but brought up as Quakers .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Teresia Constantia Phillips
She was born of a well-connected gentry or professional family on her father's side, of Welsh extraction (presumably white). She became déclassée through her career as a prostitute. It is not clear where her Roman Catholic
Cultural formation Jane Barker
Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...
Cultural formation Kate Chopin
KC had a cultural heritage which was both French Creole (her mother's family had come to Louisiana centuries earlier from northern France) and Irish. She was a presumably white American, of a well-to-do...
Cultural formation Ali Smith
AS 's Catholic childhood was an apparent anomaly
“Ali Smith interview”. Noted Listener Archive, 19 Nov. 2011.
in twentieth-century Inverness, her family being one of only four Catholic families in a long street.
Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, 2006, pp. 186-29.
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Her particular Catholicism was, as she calls it, a...
Cultural formation Rumer Godden
Late in life RG became a Roman Catholic , as did her daughters and their husbands. She was converted by friendship with the Jesuit Archbishop Roberts , formerly Archbishop of Bombay. She had formed a...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
During the Interregnum, Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) became a Roman Catholic convert. Her conversion was said to reflect the influence of Henry Turberville , a priest who was extremely influential in his lifetime and (through...
Cultural formation Medbh McGuckian
MMG is a Roman Catholic , and commented in a 25 June 1990 interview with Susan Shaw Seiler that relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Belfast are very different from what they were when...
Cultural formation Maria Theresa Longworth
She was brought up in a presumably white, English, middle-class household, heaede by a manufacturer father and without a mother (who died when she was very young). She converted to Roman Catholicism at a very...
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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