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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic
faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism
. (As the Puritan John Field
put it... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Mary Brame | Born to English parents, CMB
came from a middle-class, presumably white background. Shortly after her birth her parents, Benjamin and Charlotte Law, converted to Catholicism
. It seems that early fears over the infant Charlotte's... |
Cultural formation | Ethel M. Dell | EMD
was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant
and her father a Catholic
who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD
adopted... |
Cultural formation | Edith Sitwell | ES
was received into the Roman Catholic
Church at Farm Street Church
in Mayfair. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 318 |
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 | 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 | G. B. Stern | Both of GBS
's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense... |
Cultural formation | Daisy Ashford | DA
was born into an English middle-class Roman Catholic
family to middle-aged parents, and brought up in an affectionate home environment. She and her sisters were encouraged to read and write from an early age... |
Cultural formation | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
, resident among a fervently Catholic group at Baddesley Clinton, converted to Roman Catholicism
. This was ten years after her second husband
's conversion, and only six months before her death. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Charlotte O'Conor Eccles | When she was reduced to looking for work as a governess she found it a disadvantage to be not a member
of the Church of England. O’Conor Eccles, Charlotte. “The Experience of a Woman Journalist”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 153 , pp. 830-8. 153 (June 1893): 837 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Grymeston | Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England
came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church
, EG
was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of... |
Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | Alice Thompson (later AM
) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English... |
Cultural formation | Kathleen Raine | KR
was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist
faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism
by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her... |
Cultural formation | Hope Mirrlees | HM
was born into a wealthy business family which struck Virginia Woolf as typical[ly] English Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 3: 200 |
Cultural formation | Sybille Bedford | Her father was, at least nominally, a Catholic, like innumerable generations before him. Her part-Jewish mother, baptised a Protestant, had to convert before her marriage. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint. 59 |
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