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Cultural formation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic
, she became a committed... |
Cultural formation | Ephelia | If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I
her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced... |
Occupation | Katharine Evans | In Malta, an island whose Roman Catholicism
the Quaker women regarded as idolatrous, they were warned by the British Consul that they ran a risk, if they engaged in missionary activity, of arrest by... |
Cultural formation | Zoë Fairbairns | She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture... |
Textual Features | Zoë Fairbairns | The nurse of the title is Marie Louise Habets
, who had been a nun for seventeen years, but had left her religious Order before she met the US Protestant Kathryn Hulme
when both were... |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Farjeon | EF
's father, born an orthodox Jew, was non-practising; he did not have his children baptised, though their mother taught them to say Christian prayers. Eleanor's upbringing was Bohemian and unconventional: she did not attend... |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Farjeon | The influence of Denys Blakelock
seems to have been decisive in EF
's reception into the Catholic Church
in August 1951, not long after her honeymoon with the actor. This event, which she presented to... |
Cultural formation | Michael Field | Edith Cooper
and Katharine Harris Bradley
(known as the poet MF
) were each received into the Roman Catholic
Church. Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap. 53 |
Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry... |
Textual Production | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | Henry Moore included in his life of MBF
two letters she wrote to Samuel Walter
(one before and one after he came as curate to Madeley) and two which she wrote to an unnamed Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | Ford Madox Ford | Born of mixed English and German heritage, and on both sides of middle-class families deeply involved in the practice of the arts, FMF
converted to Roman Catholicism
at the age of nineteen, but hardly seems... |
Cultural formation | Martha Fowke | MF
came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic
heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau | After emerging first from the shortest bout of atheism on record Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann. 82 Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann. 191 |
Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Pamela Frankau | PF
's rate of production had dropped since before the war. Between now and 1960 she published (only) eight books. Frankau, Pamela. Pen to Paper. Heinemann. 83 |
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