Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Roman Catholic Church
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Joseph Conrad | He was born into the gentry class, or rather at a level of Polish society which had something of that and something of the British nobility. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church
and... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Her well-to-do father moved from the middle class into the gentry by means of marrying his daughter to a future peer. Brought up a Protestant, she early acquired from her reading a distrust of that... |
| Cultural formation | Julia Kavanagh | Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic
and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration. |
| Cultural formation | Florence Marryat | A Roman Catholic
, FM
also developed an interest in spiritualism. |
| 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>”;. 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 | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
, who had long ceased to be a Unitarian
and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 3 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. |
| Cultural formation | G. B. Stern | At the end of the Second World War, GBS
converted to Catholicism
from her purely nominal Judaism. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Cultural formation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's mother, the daughter of a Catholic
father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Cultural formation | E. M. Delafield | |
| Cultural formation | Harriet Hamilton King | Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism
... |
| Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | Alice Thompson (later AM
) converted to Catholicism
at Malvern, where she was recuperating from an illness. The old Dictionary of National Biography placed AM
's conversion four years after this. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 35 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic
identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church
and she was herself baptised as an Anglican. |
| 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 | Agnes Giberne | AG
, a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England
, in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by... |
| Cultural formation | Naomi Royde-Smith | Born into the professional middle class, NRS
had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins. Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol. 218 , No. 6481, p. 21. |
Timeline
16 June 1846: Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory...
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16 June 1846
Pius IX
became Pope after the death of Gregory XVI
on 1 June 1846. The new Pope's election was a victory for liberals in the Roman Catholic Church
over the conservatives.
From 1848: Between this year and October 1996 (when...
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From 1848
Between this year and October 1996 (when the last one closed), over 30,000 women and girls were virtually imprisoned in Ireland'sMagdalene Asylums
for sexual misconduct or other perceived transgressions against the conservative moral code...
1848: The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters arrived...
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1848
The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters
arrived in Ireland, and the first Magdalene Asylums
were established.
17 July 1851: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...
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17 July 1851
John Lingard
, historian and Roman Catholic
priest, died at Hornby in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...
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8 August 1851
The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England
) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger
(1790-1862).
1868: A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing...
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1868
A pamphlet entitled The Confessional Unmasked—Shewing the Depravity of the Romish
Priesthood was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act of 25 August 1857.
24 October 1868: With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton,...
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24 October 1868
With the support of Lady Georgiana Fullerton
, novelist and journalist Frances Margaret Taylor
established, in rented rooms off Fleet Street, London, the religious community that would become the Congregation of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God
26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...
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26 July 1869
The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone
disestablished the Church of Ireland
and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords
.
13 September 1896: Pope Leo XIII published his encyclical Apostolicae...
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13 September 1896
Pope Leo XIII
published his encyclical Apostolicae Curae, which formally rejected Anglican ordinations within the Roman Catholic Church
as absolutely null and utterly void.
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins.
Edwards 284
1906: Josephine Ward published her religious attack...
Women writers item
1906
Josephine Ward
published her religious attack on Modernism, Out of Due Time: A Novel.
1912: A religious novel by Mary Dickens, The Debtor,...
Women writers item
1912
A religiousnovel by Mary Dickens
, The Debtor, was published.
21 August 1913: The Lock-Out Strike began in Dublin when...
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21 August 1913
The Lock-Out Strike began in Dublin when leading businessman William Martin Murphy
summarily dismissed two hundred parcels workers from his Dublin Tramways Company
on the grounds that they belonged to the Irish Transport Union
.
16 May 1920: Joan of Arc was canonised as a saint of the...
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16 May 1920
Joan of Arc
was canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church
.
1926: Soon after Chatto and Windus published The...
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1926
Soon after Chatto and Windus
published The Cantab by Shane Leslie
, the book was censured by the Roman Catholic Church
, and Leslie (a Catholic himself, who had been critical of James Joyce
's...
1926: Frank Sheed and Masie Ward founded Sheed...
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1926
Frank Sheed
and Masie Ward
founded Sheed and Ward Limited
at 31 Paternoster Row, London, to publish and circulate Catholic
thought.
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