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Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau | After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann, 1961. 82 Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann, 1961. 191 |
Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church
, JHN
began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics
and Dissenters
led them to suppose that the... |
Cultural formation | Naomi Royde-Smith | In about 1940 both NRS
and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism
, a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill
and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy
(while she and her... |
Cultural formation | Radclyffe Hall | RH
's belief in spiritualism was in conflict with her Catholicism
. The Catholic Church did not condone spiritualism and she could not find a confessor who approved of her meetings with the medium she... |
Cultural formation | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic
priest, but found it unsatisfying. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 222 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 24 |
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, 1958. 11 Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 23 |
Cultural formation | Hilary Mantel | Her parents—Margaret Foster
and Henry Thompson
—were of IrishCatholic
extraction, descendants of immigrants who had come to work for the textile mills. They were working class of little education, with distant, painful memories... |
Cultural formation | Selima Hill | She came from a well-educated, Bohemian family of atheists who, however, sent her to a Roman Catholic
school. Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol. 6 , 1 June–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 39-40. 39 |
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 | Mary Wesley | MW
and her husband
converted together to Roman Catholicism
, after only six sessions of instruction. Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006. 172 |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
, who had long ceased to be a Unitarian
and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 3 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols. |
Cultural formation | Catherine Holland | CH
(now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's
in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism
. It... |
Cultural formation | Marina Warner | Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. qtd. in Williams, Elaine. “Marina Warner”. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World, edited by Sian Griffiths, Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 259-67. 261 |
Cultural formation | Toni Morrison | The early life of Chloe Wofford (later TM
) was shaped by her birth as a working-class African-American at the tail end of segregation. At twelve she became a Roman Catholic
. Brockes, Emma. “Home truths”. The Guardian, 14 Apr. 2012, pp. Weekend 30 - 5. Weekend 31 |
Cultural formation | Dora Sigerson |
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