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Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
named her daughter after Charlotte Brontë
's character. The child Shirley Catlin was already a Roman Catholic
, a role she later combined with that of social democrat. She came second to Elizabeth Taylor |
Literary Setting | Frances Brooke | This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB
drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Selina Bunbury | This markedly anti-Catholic story (which goes out of its way to criticise the Jesuits
) begins in the twelfth century, when the abbey was founded. Rafroidi, Patrick. Irish Literature in English: The Romantic Period (1789-1850). Humanities Press. 2: 83 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Burnet | During her first marriage and her theological debates with her mother-in-law
, EB
wrote a dialogue between a Protestant and a Catholic
about their respective faiths. Burnet, Elizabeth. “journals and papers”. Bodleian Library, MS Rawl. D. 1092, folios 111203. 141 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an English gentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was... |
Cultural formation | Frances Burney | FB
was serious about her Anglican
faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism
, which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic. Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon. 11 Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 23 |
Cultural formation | Catharine Burton | Her parents, members of the English yeoman class (farmers who worked their own small piece of land themselves), were devout Catholics
. This meant that they belonged to a minority to whom various civil rights... |
Textual Features | Lady Charlotte Bury | Since the earlier novel, Self-Indulgence, had been allegedly forgotten twenty years before, LCB
said she had rewritten it with all names and some background events changed. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 63 |
Textual Features | Sarah Butler | The petitions mention the death of her husband, Captain James Butler
, at the battle of Aughrim (a Williamite victory over Jacobite or Catholic
forces), the deaths of her children, the loss of her house... |
Cultural formation | Lady Eleanor Butler | LEB
came from the Anglo-Irish nobility. This class, however, was at this time under a cloud. Her parents were Roman Catholic
s, and her father's title had been attainted. In 1764 her brother renounced his... |
Cultural formation | Mary Butts | During her second marriage MB
took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic
. Naomi Royde-Smith
(herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Byron | When Pope Paul VI
issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth), a prohibition on all forms of birth control, CB
and her husband
(and her mother
) left the Catholic Church |
Cultural formation | Catherine Byron | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Calderwood | In Holland she reports in detail on horses and carriages, agriculture, the styles of dress and houses, customs like those for Sundays (solemn church attendance, followed by feasting, drinking and dancing). Calderwood, Margaret. Letters and Journals. David Douglas. 86 |
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