Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Roman Catholic Church
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Louisa Stuart Costello | |
| Cultural formation | Martha Fowke | MF
came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic
heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican
. |
| Cultural formation | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
was an Irishwoman born (on both sides) into the Dublin theatre world, though her father had gentry origins. Her mother was Protestant
, and her father Catholic
. AOK
says that she never experienced... |
| Cultural formation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic
, she became a committed... |
| Cultural formation | Jane Squire | She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic
, who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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 | Anna Kingsford | All that came to her, she believed, came by illumination because of a past birth, and because she pushed [herself] on to a point of spiritual evolution somewhat in advance of the rest of... |
| 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 | Adelaide Procter | AP
may have converted to Roman Catholicism
from Anglicanism by this date; certainly she had by 1851. Sources conflict on the date of AP
's conversion, most of them dating it in 1851. Bessie Rayner Parkes |
| Cultural formation | Annie Tinsley | AT
's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner. 4 |
| Cultural formation | Anne Carson | AC
's mother was a Roman Catholic
and the two attended church together for much of her childhood. Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview With Anne Carson”. Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 89, pp. 29-53. 45 |
| Cultural formation | Clotilde Graves | Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG
converted to Catholicism
in 1896. |
| Cultural formation | Hélène Barcynska | |
| Cultural formation | Hélène Cixous | Early in life, HC
also saw both of her parents suffer racism. At three years old, she discovered what being Jewish meant in Oran. When her father, a military officer during the war, took... |
| Cultural formation | Ephelia | If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I
her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced... |
Timeline
16 June 1846: Pius IX became Pope after the death of Gregory...
National or international item
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.
1848: The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters arrived...
Building item
1848
The Order of the Good Shepherd Sisters
arrived in Ireland, and the first Magdalene Asylums
were established.
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...
17 July 1851: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...
Writing climate item
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...
National or international item
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...
Writing climate item
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,...
Building item
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...
National or international item
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...
National or international item
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...
Writing climate item
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...
Building item
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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