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Cultural formation | George Douglas | |
Cultural formation | Maud Gonne | MG
's enthusiasms led her in several successive directions in religion. In November 1891 she became a member of the Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn
. On 17 February 1903, immediately before marrying John MacBride |
Cultural formation | Kate Marsden | Aspects of her identity shifted over time. KM
was born into an English, professional, presumably white family of the upper-middle class, who lost their financial security because of her father's early death. Protestant for much... |
Cultural formation | Mrs F. C. Patrick | She was an Irishwoman and, it seems, a Roman Catholic
, although perhaps resident in England and certainly capable of trenchant criticism of the practices of the Catholic Church of earlier generations. |
Cultural formation | Christopher St John | At some point after CSJ
met her long-time partner Edith Craig
, she converted from her family's Anglicanism
to Roman Catholicism
. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 389 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 250 |
Cultural formation | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was born into the English lower middle class. She says her family had been quite well off until the slump of 1929, but then they had lost everything. She converted to Catholicism
during her... |
Cultural formation | Kate Chopin | KC
had a cultural heritage which was both French Creole (her mother's family had come to Louisiana centuries earlier from northern France) and Irish. She was a presumably white American, of a well-to-do... |
Cultural formation | Antonia White | Years after she had left the Roman Catholic Church
, AW
reconverted to it, just before Christmas. Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 130-1 Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape. 256 |
Cultural formation | May Laffan | She belonged to the Irish middle class. A Roman Catholic
, she came from a religiously mixed household (highly unusual in deeply sectarian nineteenth-century Ireland). Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT. 13 |
Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | She said she joined the Catholic Church
because of its administration of morals. Other Christian churches or sects . . . have the legislation of Christian morality but they do not enforce the law. The... |
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 | Louisa Stuart Costello | Her family were professional people of Irish extraction. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Martha Fowke | MF
came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic
heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau | After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann. 82 Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann. 191 |
Cultural formation | Rose Hickman |
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