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Textual Features | Ellen Wood | In a subplot Adeline de Castella breaks with her beloved Frederick St John when her Catholic
father forbids her to marry him. The emotion of their parting causes her to break a blood vessel, after... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jeanette Winterson | Winterson conjures up an England ruled by a king, James I
, obsessed with stamping out the twin evils of witchcraft and Catholicism
. She identifies the original group on the hill with poor women... |
Cultural formation | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | She came from an ancient, noble, Roman Catholic
family, who were English with some claim to be Welsh. Sheffield Grace
, who wrote comments on her famous letter in 1827, ascribed her qualities to her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Lady Winifred's mother, Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness and eventually Duchess of Powis
, came from an influential Catholic
royalist family. One of her great-grand-mothers was the Renaissance translator Elizabeth Russell
(one of the famous Cook sisters)... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred's father, William Herbert
, was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic
religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier... |
Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan
's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to... |
Cultural formation | Harriette Wilson | HW
was received into the Roman Catholic Church
under the religious name of Mary Magdalen. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber. 294 |
Textual Features | Romer Wilson | The work is often described as epistolary; it is written in the first person, in letters which are varied with sketches that read almost like diary entries. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Shanks, Edward. “Romer Wilson: Some Observations”. The London Mercury, Vol. 22 , No. 130, pp. 343-9. 346 |
Cultural formation | Oscar Wilde | In the aftermath of his trial, OW
was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism
. |
Cultural formation | Antonia White | Years after she had left the Roman Catholic Church
, AW
reconverted to it, just before Christmas. Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 130-1 Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape. 256 |
Cultural formation | Antonia White | When Eirene, later Antonia, was seven years old, her father converted to Catholicism
—a decision that had a profound effect on her. She too became a Catholic and remained a nominal one all her life... |
Characters | Roma White | This story is oddly poised between admiration for the free-spirited and bohemian, respect for social convention, sympathy with those who despise social convention, and a strong Christian moral spirituality in which the choice between good... |
Cultural formation | Mary Wesley | MW
was born an upper-class Englishwoman, a second daughter who was early aware that her mother was disappointed she was not a boy. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Mary Wesley | MW
and her husband
converted together to Roman Catholicism
, after only six sessions of instruction. Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus. 172 |
Cultural formation | Patricia Wentworth | Dora Amy Elles (later PW
) was a daughter of the Raj, an Englishwoman born into imperial military life in India while her father was serving in the British army there. She returned to England... |
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