Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus, 2006.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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, 2006. 172 |
| 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, 1987. 389 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 250 |
| Cultural formation | May Laffan | She belonged to the Irish middle class. A Roman Catholic
, she came from a religiously mixed household (highly unusual in deeply sectarian nineteenth-century Ireland). Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005. 13 |
| Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | She said she joined the Catholic Church
because of its administration of morals. Other Christian churches or sects . . . have the legislation of Christian morality but they do not enforce the law. The... |
| Cultural formation | Marina Warner | Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. qtd. in Williams, Elaine. “Marina Warner”. Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World, edited by Sian Griffiths, Manchester University Press, 1996, pp. 259-67. 261 |
| Cultural formation | Ali Smith | AS
's Catholic
childhood was an apparent anomaly “Ali Smith interview”. Noted Listener Archive, 19 Nov. 2011. Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, 2006, pp. 186-29. 189 |
| Cultural formation | Rumer Godden | Late in life RG
became a Roman Catholic
, as did her daughters and their husbands. She was converted by friendship with the Jesuit Archbishop Roberts
, formerly Archbishop of Bombay. She had formed a... |
| Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | During the Interregnum, Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) became a Roman Catholic
convert. Her conversion was said to reflect the influence of Henry Turberville
, a priest who was extremely influential in his lifetime and (through... |
| Cultural formation | Maria Theresa Longworth | She was brought up in a presumably white, English, middle-class household, heaede by a manufacturer father and without a mother (who died when she was very young). She converted to Roman Catholicism
at a very... |
| Cultural formation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | MEB
's mother, the daughter of a Catholic
father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau | After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann, 1961. 82 Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann, 1961. 191 |
| Cultural formation | Lucas Malet | LM
was born into the English professional class or intelligentsia. She grew up in the heart of the Church of England
, but later, despite the irreverence with which her writings handle religious topics, converted... |
| 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... |
| Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | She was baptised in the Church of England
but by 1912, MAD
had converted to Catholicism
. Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | MF
was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. qtd. in Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
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