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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. 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 |
| Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
, who had long ceased to be a Unitarian
and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 3 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols. |
| Cultural formation | Catherine Holland | CH
(now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's
in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism
. It... |
| Cultural formation | E. Nesbit | EN
became a Roman Catholic
a couple of years after her husband had done so in 1900, but their practice of their new religion seems to have been the minimum required, and they did not... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
| Cultural formation | Antonia Fraser | Antonia converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a... |
| Cultural formation | Dora Greenwell | Presumably white, DG
was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as... |
| Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | |
| Cultural formation | Kate O'Brien | Brought up a Catholic
, KOBlost her faith while still at school; however, even without intellectual belief, she retained a strong emotional attachment to the religion of her forebears. Lorna Reynolds
calls her a... |
| Cultural formation | Naomi Royde-Smith | In about 1940 both NRS
and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism
, a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill
and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy
(while she and her... |
| Cultural formation | Radclyffe Hall | RH
's belief in spiritualism was in conflict with her Catholicism
. The Catholic Church did not condone spiritualism and she could not find a confessor who approved of her meetings with the medium she... |
| 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, 2000. 222 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 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 | Charlotte McCarthy | She was an Irish gentlewoman and apparently a Roman Catholic
or ex-Catholic, though of heterodox tendencies. She goes into some detail in discussing the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church, but is highly critical... |
| Cultural formation | Georgiana Chatterton | GC
, resident among a fervently Catholic group at Baddesley Clinton, converted to Roman Catholicism
. This was ten years after her second husband
's conversion, and only six months before her death. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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