Roman Catholic Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Harriette Wilson
HW was received into the Roman Catholic Church under the religious name of Mary Magdalen.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003.
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Cultural formation Annie Keary
She then went through a spiritual night
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882.
141
of doubt and perplexity after a passionate persuasion by a Carmelite nun friend to become a Catholic .
Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882.
140-1
She next became a High Church Anglican ...
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 Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Frances Sarah Hoey
John Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and on her marriage FSH converted to Catholicism . Catholicism is not usually an issue in her fiction (with the exception of the anti-divorce novel Out of Court...
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 Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
By December 1860 BLSB was sufficiently interested in Roman Catholicism (to which Bessie Rayner Parkes later converted) to write about her interest to George Eliot , who responded with sympathy but a clear statement of...
Cultural formation Louisa Stuart Costello
Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
The fact that her brother received Anglican baptism years after his birth suggests that the family may perhaps have been Catholics before that.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cultural formation Maud Gonne
MG 's enthusiasms led her in several successive directions in religion. In November 1891 she became a member of the Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn . On 17 February 1903, immediately before marrying John MacBride
Cultural formation Eleanor Farjeon
The influence of Denys Blakelock seems to have been decisive in EF 's reception into the Catholic Church in August 1951, not long after her honeymoon with the actor. This event, which she presented to...
Cultural formation Mary Howitt
MH was received into the Roman Catholic Church after receiving dispensations to keep using her English Bible and to be buried with her husband in the Protestant Cemetery.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London, 1992.
254
Cultural formation Carol Rumens
Born into the English lower middle class, Carol-Ann spent her early childhood in London, where her immediate family shared a gloomy, unwelcoming house owned by her grandparents in Forest Hill, living as [t]wo families...
Cultural formation Charlotte Dempster
CD grew up in the Church of Scotland , but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 after a decade living in France.
Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920.
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Cultural formation Una Troubridge
In 1929 UT began to question the Catholic Church's position on sexual inversion. She felt disillusioned by the Church authorities: I begin to doubt whether authority has any place where the invert may lay...

Timeline

4 April 1687: James II's Abolition of the Test Act (a change...

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4 April 1687

James II 's Abolition of the Test Act (a change which was also called the Declaration of Indulgence) extended freedom of worship without penalty to Catholics and Dissenting sects; but it remained in force only...

11 April 1687: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, A...

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11 April 1687

John Dryden 's The Hind and the Panther, A Poem, In Three Parts, was licensed for print: a vindication of the Catholic Church against the Church of England which, unusually, takes the form of...

February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...

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February 1689 to October 1791

The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II (who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange (who had assumed...

12 July 1690: William III heavily defeated James II at...

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12 July 1690

William III heavily defeated James II at the battle of the Boyne in Ireland, in which 62,000 men fought.
Defoe, Daniel. Selected Poetry and Prose of Daniel Defoe. Editor Shugrue, Michael F., Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968.
324
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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12 July 1691: At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway,...

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12 July 1691

At the battle of Aughrim in county Galway, William III 's forces in Ireland (having just taken the town of Athlone with fearful destruction) won a decisive victory over those of James II ...

17 September 1695: The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics...

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17 September 1695

The first of the Penal Laws against Catholics restricted Catholic education rights: this produced the emergence in Ireland of the celebrated, and mythologized, hedge schools.
Foster, Robert Fitzroy. Modern Ireland 1600-1972. Allen Lane, 1988.
208
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
22-3

1704: A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman...

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1704

A Penal Law enacted in England barred Roman Catholic estates in Ireland from descending by primogeniture to the eldest son; unless that eldest converted to Protestantism, the estate was to be shared equally among all...

1 May 1746: A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament...

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1 May 1746

A Penal Law passed by the British Parliament in 1745 declared that from this date any marriage of a Protestant solemnised by a Catholic priest (whether to a Catholic or Protestant) was null and void.
“Statutes in Chronological Order, 3: The Reigns of King George I and II”. University of Minnesota Law School: Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery, commonly known as the Penal Laws.

March 1763: At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic...

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March 1763

At Tipperary in Ireland about 14,000 Catholic farm workers rose in protest against working conditions and evictions.
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
23

By 1767: Of the thirty-seven county towns in England,...

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By 1767

Of the thirty-seven county towns in England, twelve had public Catholicmass-houses and at nine more a priest celebrated regular mass in his home.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
71, 73, 307, 282

5 February 1771: John Lingard, historian and Roman Catholic...

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5 February 1771

John Lingard , historian and Roman Catholic priest, was born at Winchester in Hampshire.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.

15 February 1782: Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met...

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15 February 1782

Delegates from the Ulster Volunteers met at Dungannon and adopted resolutions in favour of Ireland's independence from England and relaxation of the Penal Laws.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Curley, Thomas. “Johnson and the Irish: A Post-Colonial Survey of the Irish Literary Renaissance in Imperial Great Britain”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin and Jack Lynch, Vol.
12
, AMS Press, 2001, pp. 67-197.
154-5
Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
32
, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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11 May 1792: Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition...

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11 May 1792

Edmund Burke in his Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians argued that Unitarians, who denied the doctrine of the Trinity, could not claim toleration like Catholics , Presbyterian s, Quakers , and others.
De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 4, 1 June 2001– 2024, pp. 577-00.
595

18 February 1793: A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts...

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18 February 1793

A Catholic Relief Act repealed some parts of the infamous Penal Laws operative in Ireland. Either J. S. Anna Liddiard or her husband wrote in 1819 that this was the source of the improvement...

13 April 1829: The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received...

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13 April 1829

The Catholic Emancipation Act at last received the royal assent, allowing limited civil rights, for the first time, to Catholics in Britain.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
885
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
278-9, 333
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
21
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
8
Norman, Edward R. The English Catholic Church in the Nineteenth Century. Clarendon, 1984.
65
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2024.
“Our history in Britain”. The Jesuits in Britain.

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