Roman Catholic Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Christopher St John
At some point after CSJ met her long-time partner Edith Craig , she converted from her family's Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton.
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Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
250
Cultural formation Mary Angela Dickens
MAD converted to Roman Catholicism by the mid-1910s and explored religious issues in some of the writing she published during the period. For example, her devotional book Sanctuary (1916) contains a preface by Charles Galton
Cultural formation May Laffan
She belonged to the Irish middle class. A Roman Catholic , she came from a religiously mixed household (highly unusual in deeply sectarian nineteenth-century Ireland).
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT.
13
Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican , EW renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span&gt”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0.
184
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 Jean Rhys
JR was at one time attracted to Catholicism , mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns
Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch.
77
circulated amongst the...
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.
233
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 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 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 Oscar Wilde
In the aftermath of his trial, OW was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism .
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.
63
She later suspected that she took her first step away from orthodox religion when various...
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.
Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation.
50
Cultural formation Ann Hatton
At some time before her death, AH converted to Catholicism (which had been her father's religion).
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
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Cultural formation Lucas Malet
LM was born into the English professional class or intelligentsia. She grew up in the heart of the Church of England , but later, despite the irreverence with which her writings handle religious topics, converted...

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