qtd. in
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Cultural formation | Charlotte Guest | CG
remained a member of the Church of England
(with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters
were doing a better... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Jennings | When she was thirteen or fourteen EJ
first began to question the Roman Catholic
faith in which she was being brought up. But she remained a faithful (though troubled) Catholic, always closely concerned with religion... |
Cultural formation | Lucas Malet | She apparently felt the Catholic Church to be female: the great mother church of Christendom
. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
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, 1958. 11 Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 23 |
Cultural formation | Emily Hickey | Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King
, or by John Henry Newman
, EH
converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
, which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance. qtd. in Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More, 1927. 43, 41 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 169 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 | Judith Kazantzis | Her father 's family was Anglo-Irish, and though he liked sometimes to say he was Irish, the family were in every real sense English. They were highly educated professionals of the upper class (on the... |
Cultural formation | Dorothea Celesia | Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She... |
Cultural formation | G. B. Stern | At the end of the Second World War, GBS
converted to Catholicism
from her purely nominal Judaism. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
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 | Edith Sitwell | ES
was received into the Roman Catholic
Church at Farm Street Church
in Mayfair. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. 318 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Godley | It seems her family was tolerant in religious matters. They were Anglicans
, but when one of the brothers became both a Roman Catholic
and a Jesuit priest, his conversion does not seem to have... |
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 | Susanna Hopton | SH
had married as a RomanCatholic
, but her new husband
devoted himself with indefatigable Pains qtd. in Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 38 , June 1991, pp. 165-72. 170 |
Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau | |
Cultural formation | Anna Maria Hall | Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican
Church. AMH
encountered many practising Catholic
s while living with her maternal step-grandfather
, who often entertained... |
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