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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
Her Lines to the Mansion of My Ancestors...
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
circulated amongst the...
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
her father from a lineage of Evangelical or hot-gospellingAnglican s while her mother's family had been Plymouth Brethren . Together, they administered heavy doses of religion...
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
Though she was an Anglican by birth and confirmation, her upbringing was not a religious one. Her father seems to have had a philosophical interest in religion, but he was far from devout. In his...
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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