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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 | Ann Hatton | At some time before her death, AH
converted to Catholicism
(which had been her father's religion). Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 7: 175 |
Cultural formation | Agnes Wenman | She belonged to the English gentry class, but within her class she belonged to a disadvantaged minority: she was, like her family, a recusant Catholic
. |
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 | Frances Boothby | She clearly sprang from an educated segment of society, probably the gentry. It seems fairly certain that she was a Roman Catholic
. |
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 | Dante Alighieri | He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party... |
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 | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Craigie (JOH
) entered the Roman Catholic Church
at a ceremony at St James's Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London. She now assumed the name Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie. Harding, Mildred Davis. Air-Bird in the Water. Associated University Presses. 77 |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | During the Interregnum, Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) became a Roman Catholic
convert. Her conversion was said to reflect the influence of Henry Turberville
, a priest who was extremely influential in his lifetime and (through... |
Cultural formation | Maria Theresa Longworth | She was brought up in a presumably white, English, middle-class household, heaede by a manufacturer father and without a mother (who died when she was very young). She converted to Roman Catholicism
at a very... |
Cultural formation | Dervla Murphy | |
Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
converted to Roman Catholicism
by the mid-1910s and explored religious issues in some of the writing she published during the period. For example, her devotional book Sanctuary (1916) contains a preface by Charles Galton |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | |
Cultural formation | Lucas Malet | LM
was born into the English professional class or intelligentsia. She grew up in the heart of the Church of England
, but later, despite the irreverence with which her writings handle religious topics, converted... |
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