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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Catherine Sinclair | In Lady Mary Pierrepoint the title character is a Protestant whose virago widowed mother-in-law (Lady Pierrepont) intends to disinherit her son Sir Cosmo (Mary's husband) and leave her lands to the Roman Catholic Church
... |
Cultural formation | Edith Sitwell | ES
was received into the Roman Catholic
Church at Farm Street Church
in Mayfair. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 318 |
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 | Ali Smith | AS
's Catholic
childhood was an apparent anomaly “Ali Smith interview”. Noted Listener Archive. Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, pp. 186-29. 189 |
Textual Features | Susan Smythies | SS
's modesty was well founded. The novel that follows is a more conventional romance than any of Richardson
's, though it makes much reference to Sir Charles Grandison, and also cites Pamela (though... |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was received into the Roman Catholic
Church by a Maltese priest, Dom Ambrose Agius
(or Aegius), whom she had met earlier at the Poetry Society
. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 202-3 |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | Though she attended a Presbyterian
school, MS
was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested Spark, Muriel. “My Conversion”. Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, G. K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, pp. 24-28. 24 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Spark | The close of MS
's erotic relationship with Howard Sergeant
(with whom, however, her friendship continued for a while) coincided with a gradual movement towards Derek Stanford
, a fellow-member of postwar London bohemia, who... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Spark | The book's title comes from the book of Job (a text on which MS
had planned a monograph, and did write a related article). Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 165 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The book does not measure up to the force and clarity of the opening. The suggestively-named Deletia Granville is a mysterious, neglected young girl at the outset, pensive and literary, loving sublime nature and her... |
Cultural formation | Jane Squire | An accusation was brought against JA of being a Popish recusant convict, that is of practising the outlawed Roman Catholic
religion. The charge (which was dismissed) probably had something to do with her ongoing court case. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Jane Squire | She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic
, who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 |
Publishing | Christina Stead | Having decided to leave Simon and Schuster
, CS
submitted this work in manuscript to Angus Cameron
of Little Brown
, but she may have done this too early, since he replied that it needed... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Stein | Stein's partner Alice Toklas
converted to Catholicism
in 1957, allegedly because she liked the idea of meeting up with Stein in heaven. Castle, Terry. “Husbands and Wives”. London Review of Books, Vol. 29 , No. 24, pp. 10-16. 14 |
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