Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin, 1971.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Julia O'Faolain | JOF
was born to intense paternal concern about Irish nationality, to indignation at the power of the Roman Catholic Church
(in which, nevertheless, she was confirmed at ten years old), and a conviction that national... |
| 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. 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 | Katherine Cecil Thurston | Both of KCT
's parents were Irish Catholics
, and in comfortable financial circumstances. Her birth family was comprised of professionals and merchants, members of the rising middle class. McCormack, Declan. “The Butterfly on the Wheel”. The Independent, 24 Sept. 2000. 24 September 2000 |
| 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 | Anna Kingsford | As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
. She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society
to form the... |
| 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 | 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 | Jane Owen | |
| Cultural formation | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist
mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection
, and an Irish, originally Catholic
, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish... |
| 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... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Inchbald | She came from a family of Catholic
farmers, middle-class people who were liked and respected by the local gentry. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 3 |
| Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church
, JHN
began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics
and Dissenters
led them to suppose that the... |
| Cultural formation | Anne Askew | It seems AA
was arrested twice this year, for speaking against the Sacrament. The second time was on 13 June. Wilson, Derek. A Tudor Tapestry: Men, Women and Society in Reformation England. Heinemann, 1972. 183 |
Timeline
10 July 1994: Pope John Paul II published a letter to the...
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10 July 1994
Pope John Paul II
published a letter to the world's women admitting that the Church
had discriminated against them, but maintaining his reactionary stance on gender issues.
Williams, Neville et al. Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon, 1996.
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Summer 2005: News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction...
Women writers item
Summer 2005
News broke that one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year, Judith Kelly
's Rock Me Gently, included passages almost verbally identical with passages by other authors.
Leith, Sam. “Sounds familiar? When ’memories’ seem to spring from other literary sources”. Telegraph.co.uk, 6 Aug. 2005.
21 April 2011: Hundreds of Anglicans converted to the Roman...
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21 April 2011
Hundreds of Anglicans
converted to the Roman Catholic Church
, with the blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, because they were not prepared to countenance the consecration of women bishops.
“News”. BBC Radio Four.
April 2012: The Leadership Conference of Women Religious,...
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April 2012
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious
, which represents about 80 percent of American Roman Catholic
nuns, was sharply reprimanded by the Vatican
's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
for serious doctrinal problems.
Pullella, Philip. “Vatican tells U. S. nuns its doctrine is supremeEdmonton Journal, 13 June 2012, p. A21.
25 April 2013: A bill to end succession to the crown based...
National or international item
25 April 2013
A bill to end succession to the crown based on male primogeniture was passed by the British parliament.
“Law ending exclusively male royal succession now law”. BBC News UK, 25 Apr. 2013.
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