Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Monica Dickens | MD
was born into a wealthy bourgeois family descended from Charles Dickens. Her father (who was half-English, half French-German) had to face family disapproval when he chose his bride, not because her father was German... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Dixie | The widowed mother
of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD
) converted to Roman Catholicism
and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor
) with her younger children, lest their guardians should... |
Cultural formation | Florence Dixie | FD
belonged to the British nobility (with a Scottish father and English mother), but her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism
(as well as other family circumstances) made her experience different from most members of her... |
Cultural formation | Florence Dixie | Two of the older children willingly followed their mother into the Roman Catholic
Church. Florence and her twin went through the terrors of a first confession, but as she later put it, [h]uman nature does... |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
sealed his conversion from Roman Catholicism
(probably long since complete) by being ordained a priest of the Church of England
at St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was later to become Dean. |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic
. He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his... |
Cultural formation | George Douglas | |
Author summary | George Douglas | Lady Gertrude Georgina Douglas (later Stock) wrote during the later nineteenth century under the name of George Douglas
. She used the novel both as a means of earning money and as a vehicle for... |
Cultural formation | George Douglas | GD
was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism
, which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced. |
Cultural formation | George Douglas | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | George Douglas | Linked Lives features another orphan heroine, the well-born, highly romantic Mabel Forrester. The purpose of the novel is to show Mabel's progress towards embracing the Roman Catholic
faith. Mabel, however, virtually shares the position of... |
Literary responses | George Douglas | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anne Dowriche | Critic Elaine V. Beilin
discerns the influence on AD
's text of John Foxe
's Actes and Monuments, 1563. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 172 |
Cultural formation | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Brought up and educated as a RomanCatholic
, SACD
lost hisfaith before he left school. He later adopted a fairly eclectic form of spiritualism. |
Education | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Conan Doyle, later SACD
, attended private schools (paid for by uncles, not his parents), latterly as a boarder at Stonyhurst College
, a Jesuit-run, Roman Catholic
public school in England. He acquired a passion... |
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