Cowper, Mary, Countess. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864.
56-57
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Cultural formation | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic
, she became a committed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
was so unfortunate as to have a great many Relations (most of them Roman Catholics
) who joined the Jacobite
rebellion of 1715. Cowper, Mary, Countess. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864. 56-57 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Bingham Countess Lucan | Her title-page features a quotation in French from Henri le Grand
of France, about his aspiration to provide a chicken in every pot in his kingdom: the poor of Mayo, she says, get nothing... |
Cultural formation | Constance Countess Markievicz | Shortly after her first release from prison, Irish nationalist Constance, Countess Markievicz,
became a Roman Catholic
. Marreco, Anne. The Rebel Countess: The Life and Times of Constance Markievicz. Chilton Books, 1967. 234 |
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. Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of. “Introduction”. Conversations of Lord Byron, edited by Ernest J., Jr Lovell, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 3-114. 14 |
Cultural formation | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | She came from an ancient, noble, Roman Catholic
family, who were English with some claim to be Welsh. Sheffield Grace
, who wrote comments on her famous letter in 1827, ascribed her qualities to her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis
, came from an influential Catholic
royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell
(one of the famous Cook sisters)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred's father, William Herbert
, was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic
religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier... |
Cultural formation | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist
mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection
, and an Irish, originally Catholic
, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic
faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism
. (As the Puritan John Field
put it... |
politics | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Lady Tyrwhit and her husband continued to prosper through the reign of Queen Mary
. Susan M. Felch points out that long before she was a persecutor of Protestants, Mary had participated in the humanist... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Tyrwhit's prayers bring together, in cheerful ecumenicity, the Bible, the old Roman Catholic
tradition of books of hours, and newer Lutheran
and humanist influence, grafting new thinking onto an age-old tradition of piety... |
Cultural formation | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican
faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism
. She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 6, 19 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, was finally received into the Catholic Church
, years after her reading in the Catholic Fathers had first made her wish to do this. Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 165-82. 167 and n11 Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 7 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, arranged the abduction her two youngest sons, Henry and Patrick
, at their own wish, from Great Tew to travel to Europe and be educated as Catholics
. Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 165-82. 170 Falkland, Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, 1994, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 8, 181 Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, 1994, pp. 183-75. 259 |
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