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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Literary responses | Monica Furlong | Ruth McCurry
in the Times Literary Supplement found this biography at once accurate and sympathetic. Saint Thérèse, said McCurry, could have been shown as a victim either of nineteenth-century provincial French society, or of an... |
Literary Setting | Monica Furlong | This short novel, a blend of fairytale, adventure story, didacticism, the occult, and a study of an orphan finding herself, is set in the seventh century in the kingdom of Dalriada (now the Isle of... |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | MF
was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. |
Education | Mavis Gallant | By the age of four, MG
was already boarding at Pensionnat Saint-Louis de Gonzague, a Jansenist convent in Montreal, on Sherbrooke Street East, the same street on which she lived. |
Cultural formation | Dorothea Gerard | Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church
to Roman Catholicism
too early for her to remember it. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 145 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. under Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard |
Cultural formation | Emily Gerard | She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church
, which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism
, EG
and... |
Cultural formation | Agnes Giberne | AG
, a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England
, in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by... |
Textual Production | Ann Taylor Gilbert | In an essay signed A Rustic Rambler, ATG
compared the forms of Roman Catholicism
practised in England and in Continental Europe. Gilbert, Ann Taylor. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert. Editor Gilbert, Josiah, H. S. King, http://U of A, HSS Ruth N . 2: 147 |
Characters | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College
who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with... |
Cultural formation | Rumer Godden | For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican
aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything... |
Cultural formation | Rumer Godden | Late in life RG
became a Roman Catholic
, as did her daughters and their husbands. She was converted by friendship with the Jesuit Archbishop Roberts
, formerly Archbishop of Bombay. She had formed a... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Godley | It seems her family was tolerant in religious matters. They were Anglicans
, but when one of the brothers became both a Roman Catholic
and a Jesuit priest, his conversion does not seem to have... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Godley | Charlotte's brother John
became a Jesuit priest after converting to Roman Catholicism
, without apparently upsetting the family. Garner, Jean. “The First ‘First Lady’: Charlotte Godley, 1821-1907”. Remembering Godley, edited by Mark Stocker, Hazard Press, pp. 56-77. 57 |
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 | Clotilde Graves | Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG
converted to Catholicism
in 1896. |
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