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Cultural formation | Ali Smith | |
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 |
Textual Features | Catherine Sinclair | This novel focuses on Beatrice, an orphan of mysterious origin who ends up after a shipwreck in the imaginary Scottish village of Clanmarina. She is taken in by Sir Evan McAlpine, and Lady Edith, his... |
Textual Production | Catherine Sinclair | While in her works for young people CS
gained a reputation for keeping a bright tone even in moralising, her writing for adults centres on heavily didactic texts in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Sinclair | CS
sets up a dichotomy between Protestantism
, which is based on the truth of Scripture, and Catholicism
, which rests on legends. Without the Bible, she writes, men would be mere weeds in... |
Textual Features | Catherine Sinclair | In Lady Mary Pierrepoint the title character is a Protestant whose virago widowed mother-in-law (Lady Pierrepont) intends to disinherit her son Sir Cosmo (Mary's husband) and leave her lands to the Roman Catholic Church
... |
Cultural formation | Dora Sigerson | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Shirley | Born into the English gentry, ES
was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic: Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | Naomi Royde-Smith noted that almost all of its characters have names, pseudonyms and aliases, Royde-Smith, Naomi, and Denis Dighton. The State of Mind of Mrs. Sherwood. Macmillan. 149 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Martha Sherwood | Brought up in Italy and neglected by her parents, the eponymous heroine of Victoria causes consternation at the age of ten by announcing that she has converted to Catholicism
. When her father demands whether... |
Cultural formation | Flora Shaw | FS
was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's... |
Cultural formation | William Shakespeare | Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS
subscribed to the Church of England
or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism
. Supporters of the Catholic... |
Cultural formation | Anne Sexton | AS
has been discussed as a religious writer who, slightly ahead of her time, intuited the need for a feminist revision of patriarchal monotheism. She centred a play on the Roman Catholic Mass, and some... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Sewell | The leaders she met included John Keble
, John Henry Newman
, and Henry Wilberforce
; she also met Charlotte Yonge
. Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green. 62-3 It was soon after this meeting that Newman, Wilberforce, and Edward Bellasis
all joined the Catholic Church
. |
Cultural formation | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck |
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