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Cultural formation | Dorothea Celesia | Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Wentworth Morton | SWM
, born into a comfortable rank in British colonial society, became a proud American. She was proud also of her father's Welsh heritage. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press. 13, 16, 18 |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
sealed his conversion from Roman Catholicism
(probably long since complete) by being ordained a priest of the Church of England
at St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was later to become Dean. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic
. He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his... |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism
: a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 53 |
Cultural formation | Jean Rhys | JR
was at one time attracted to Catholicism
, mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch. 77 |
Cultural formation | Frances Ridley Havergal | FRH
was confirmed in the Anglican Church
; her particular views were Evangelical. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was baptised into the Anglican
Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes
, a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 132 Walker, Dorothea. Muriel Spark. Twayne. 3 Whittaker, Ruth. The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark. Macmillan. 25 |
Cultural formation | Pat Arrowsmith | Both her parents were exceedingly religious, Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books. 20 |
Cultural formation | Jane Johnson | Leaving Olney as a widow, JJ
wrote with an evident sense of moral righteousness of her conservative resistance to AnglicanEvangelicalism
. I made a strong proof of my Courage, made a Bold Stand against... |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Underhill | |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland
member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic
, Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts... |
Cultural formation | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
was confirmed in the Church of England
by Thomas Secker
, probably at St James's, Piccadilly, having apparently not received this sacrament as a child. Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press. 82 |
Cultural formation | John Strange Winter | She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine
), Castlemaine had... |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Osborne | She was an Anglican
from the English gentry class. |
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