Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books.
167, 187, 34
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Cultural formation | John Dryden | Dryden parallelled his former switch in political allegiance in probably 1685, with a switch of religious allegiance, converting from Anglicanism to Catholicism
. He was vulnerable to charges of time-serving since he did this at... |
Cultural formation | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Cultural formation | Carol Ann Duffy | |
Cultural formation | Helen Dunmore | HD
's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic
Englishwoman. Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books. 167, 187, 34 |
Friends, Associates | T. S. Eliot | Mirrlees
was a Roman Catholic
convert of some years' standing at the time of her closest contact with Eliot. John Hayward
was a talented, acerbic, clubbable scholar crippled by muscular dystrophy. Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton. 274-5 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, was finally received into the Catholic Church
, years after her reading in the Catholic Fathers had first made her wish to do this. Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 165-82. 167 and n11 Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 7 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, arranged the abduction her two youngest sons, Henry and Patrick
, at their own wish, from Great Tew to travel to Europe and be educated as Catholics
. Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 165-82. 170 Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 8, 181 Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, pp. 183-75. 259 |
death | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, died of tuberculosis, in the Catholic
religion, and in her daughter's words without any agony quietly as a child, being wholly spent by her disease. Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, pp. 183-75. 275 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Her well-to-do father moved from the middle class into the gentry by means of marrying his daughter to a future peer. Brought up a Protestant, she early acquired from her reading a distrust of that... |
Characters | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston
) with... |
Cultural formation | Queen Elizabeth I | Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr
in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican
, probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic
faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism
. (As the Puritan John Field
put it... |
politics | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Lady Tyrwhit and her husband continued to prosper through the reign of Queen Mary
. Susan M. Felch points out that long before she was a persecutor of Protestants, Mary had participated in the humanist... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit | Tyrwhit's prayers bring together, in cheerful ecumenicity, the Bible, the old Roman Catholic
tradition of books of hours, and newer Lutheran
and humanist influence, grafting new thinking onto an age-old tradition of piety... |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Elstob | George Hickes
had strongly supported the forthcoming edition. He thought Elstob's work the most correct I ever saw or read,and that her edition will be of great advantage to the Church of England
against... |
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