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Cultural formation | Jane Barker | JB
converted to Catholicism
(as her poems relate), and to its attendant difficulties and discrimination. King, Kathryn R., and Jeslyn Medoff. “Jane Barker and Her Life (1652-1732): The Documentary Record”. Eighteenth-Century Life, Vol. 21 , No. 3, pp. 16-38. 21-2 Myers, Joanne. “Jane Barker’s Conversion and the Forms of Religious Experience”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 30 , No. 3, pp. 369-93. 369 |
Cultural formation | Jane Barker | Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England
(into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism
, to which as an... |
politics | Jane Barker | Though all the English at St-Germain were Jacobites this did not mean they were all in agreement. There were deep and sometimes acrimonious divisions among them over tactics, principles, and especially allegiances. JB
was a... |
Dedications | Jane Barker | It appeared though Curll
and Rivington
, dedicated to the Countess of Nottingham
(an Anglican
who was said to be a Catholic
sympathiser). Its frontispiece is an engraving of the Crucifixion. It has recently been... |
Textual Features | Jane Barker | |
Cultural formation | Mary Basset | MB
was a Roman Catholic
and a humanist, like the rest of her English, professional-class, and unusually scholarly family. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Basset | Despite her personal achievements, Margaret Roper's fame has and to some extent still does rest primarily on her status as the eldest and favourite daughter of Thomas More
, Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII |
Textual Production | Henrietta Battier | Mullinahack is not a country estate but a district of Dublin. Byrne was a wealthy middle-class mercant and a supporter of Catholic
emancipation. His bride was, according to the Hibernian Magazine for this month, a... |
Cultural formation | Simone de Beauvoir | This family spanned a number of the influences she would later reject: her mother was a fervent Catholic
and her father a conservative in politics and in cultural choices, whereas as a young woman she... |
Cultural formation | Sybille Bedford | Her father was, at least nominally, a Catholic, like innumerable generations before him. Her part-Jewish mother, baptised a Protestant, had to convert before her marriage. Bedford, Sybille. Quicksands. Counterpoint. 59 |
Cultural formation | Aphra Behn | Her later Roman Catholicism
(which some commentators dispute) may have had family roots, for there was some talk of her entering a convent. Leibell, Sister Helen Dominica. Anglo-Saxon Education of Women: From Hilda to Hildegarde. B. Franklin. 117-18 Todd, Janet. The Secret Life of Aphra Behn. Rutgers University Press. 33-4 |
Cultural formation | Aphra Behn | AB
seems to have converted before the end of her life to Catholicism
, which was in tune with her political allegiances. A poem on the execution of Lord Stafford
(written soon after this event... |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | AB
was confirmed an Anglican
in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism
, but the writing of the Oxford Movement
convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After... |
Textual Features | John Betjeman | Critic Ian Sansom
notes the preference this poetry evinces for familiarity and tradition. He singles out for mention the opening poem, Death in Leamington (about the bleakness of a woman's death in lonely, genteel poverty),... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Isabella Bird | On one hand she lauds American religious feeling, especially as expressed in the New England States, but she calls slave-owning southerners hypocrites, and worries about the effect of Catholicism
in the mid-Western states of Illinois... |
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