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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. 222 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 24 |
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 | Anne Carson | AC
's mother was a Roman Catholic
and the two attended church together for much of her childhood. Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview With Anne Carson”. Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 89, pp. 29-53. 45 |
Cultural formation | Clotilde Graves | Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG
converted to Catholicism
in 1896. |
Cultural formation | Hélène Barcynska | |
Cultural formation | Mary Martin | She grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic
family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant |
Cultural formation | Hélène Cixous | Early in life, HC
also saw both of her parents suffer racism. At three years old, she discovered what being Jewish meant in Oran. When her father, a military officer during the war, took... |
Cultural formation | Ephelia | If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I
her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced... |
Cultural formation | Gertrude Thimelby | GT
was a member of an English gentry family who became Roman Catholics
during her childhood. Her minority religious allegiance shaped her life. |
Cultural formation | Radclyffe Hall | With the support of her older lover, Ladye
, RH
converted to Catholicism
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 81-2 |
Cultural formation | Antonia White | When Eirene, later Antonia, was seven years old, her father converted to Catholicism
—a decision that had a profound effect on her. She too became a Catholic and remained a nominal one all her life... |
Cultural formation | Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington | She was brought up a Catholic
but became a sceptic, apart from a continuing superstitious feeling about religion. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington,. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J. Lovell, Princeton University Press, pp. 3-114. 14 |
Cultural formation | Thomas Moore | He came from an Irish Catholic
family, though he spent much of his adulthood in England. Despite his Catholic upbringing, he lived like a Protestant and thought like a Deist. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 96 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 | Pamela Frankau |
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