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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 | Louisa Stuart Costello | Her family were professional people of Irish extraction. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Martha Fowke | MF
came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic
heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican
. |
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... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
converted to Catholicism
from the Church of Ireland
. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Ali Smith | She grew up with English and Irish Catholic
parents of working-class background, living in council housing behind the Caledonian Canal at 92 St Valery in Inverness. The Smith family was fortunate to secure such... |
Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | In her youth AB
had a cousin who faithfully attended Mass. She later built friendships with several Anglican and Catholic clergy, visited monasteries in China and Albania during her travels, and eventually became a Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | Anne Devlin | AD
grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid. Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, pp. 107-23. 111 |
Cultural formation | Frances Sarah Hoey | John Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and on her marriage FSH
converted to Catholicism
. Catholicism is not usually an issue in her fiction (with the exception of the anti-divorce novel Out of Court... |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Waugh | Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican
, EW
renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism
in 1930. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span>”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0. 184 |
Cultural formation | Kate Marsden | Aspects of her identity shifted over time. KM
was born into an English, professional, presumably white family of the upper-middle class, who lost their financial security because of her father's early death. Protestant for much... |
Cultural formation | Mrs F. C. Patrick | She was an Irishwoman and, it seems, a Roman Catholic
, although perhaps resident in England and certainly capable of trenchant criticism of the practices of the Catholic Church of earlier generations. |
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 |
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