Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray.
298, 301
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Cultural formation | Rose Macaulay | On her return from a holiday in Italy, RM
received a letter from her former confessor, Father Hamilton Johnson
, which in due course brought her back to the Anglican
Church. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray. 298, 301 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins. 193 |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Sharp | |
Cultural formation | Anna Wheeler | AW
came from a wealthy and socially prominent Protestant
Irish landowning family; she was the god-daughter of the Irish nationalist Henry Grattan
. Her family life was intellectual and enlightened, as well as prosperous: the... |
Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | AB
sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian
(in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was... |
Cultural formation | Mary Maria Colling | Baptised a Congregationalist
, that is in contemporary terms a Dissenter
, MMC
later became a practising Anglican
. She was deeply religious. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85. 17 An Independent church in England is normally Congregational, though the Wesleyan Independent sect also existed. Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. J. M. Dent. |
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... |
Cultural formation | Constance Holme | CH
's parents came from long-established gentry families in their area and were said to have been regarded with deep respect by local people—a respect which they would have claimed as their due. She was... |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | |
Cultural formation | Molly Keane | Her family belonged to the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. MK
called them a rather serious hunting and fishing, church-going
family. Breen, Mary. “Piggies and Spoilers of Girls: The Representation of Sexuality in the Novels of Molly Keane”. Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing, St Martin’s Press, pp. 202-20. 202 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda | She came from a Welsh entrepreneurial or upper-class family. Her class status (or in this case that of her husband) in 1913 ensured her release from prison, where she had been sent for suffrage activity... |
Cultural formation | Mary Martin | She grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic
family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant |
Cultural formation | Githa Sowerby | GS
's father's family had been in the glass manufacturing business for several generations. The business was at its peak in her early years and her family was rich and respected. But its empire-building days... |
Cultural formation | Frances Burney | FB
was serious about her Anglican
faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism
, which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic. Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon. 11 Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 23 |
Cultural formation | Stella Gibbons | After several years of struggling with her religious beliefs, SG
was baptised into the Church of England
. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 196 |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Osborne | She was an Anglican
from the English gentry class. |
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