Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, translated by. Barry A. Windeatt, Penguin, 1994, pp. 9-30.
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Cultural formation | Mary Martin | She grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic
family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant |
Cultural formation | Rose Hickman | |
Cultural formation | Margery Kempe | She was, like the whole population of England in her day, a Roman Catholic
; she was suspected, but acquitted, of the heresy of Lollardy
. Kempe, Margery. “Introduction”. The Book of Margery Kempe, translated by. Barry A. Windeatt, Penguin, 1994, pp. 9-30. 11-12 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Despard | She converted to Catholicism
less than a year after her husband's death, which made her a co-religionist of those she now set out to help. Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson, 1980. 63 |
Cultural formation | Catharine Trotter | CT
was a middle-class woman of Scottish parentage, with aristocratic connections and Roman Catholic
heritage on her mother's side. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 3 |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
, who had long ceased to be a Unitarian
and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 3 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press, 1985–2025, 2 vols. |
Cultural formation | Hope Mirrlees | HM
was born into a wealthy business family which struck Virginia Woolf as typical[ly] English Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 3: 200 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Holland | CH
(now in correspondence with the Prioress of St Monica's
in Louvain) wrote a letter to inform her father that her historical studies had convinced her that the true religion was Catholicism
. It... |
Cultural formation | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican
faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism
. She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 6, 19 |
Cultural formation | Dora Greenwell | Presumably white, DG
was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as... |
Cultural formation | E. Nesbit | EN
became a Roman Catholic
a couple of years after her husband had done so in 1900, but their practice of their new religion seems to have been the minimum required, and they did not... |
Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | |
Cultural formation | Mary Cowden Clarke | MCC
was born into a professional, English family of European extraction (her father was half Italian and her mother half German) and Roman Catholic
religion. Mary writes of her early, Catholic church attendance in terms... |
Cultural formation | Naomi Royde-Smith | In about 1940 both NRS
and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism
, a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill
and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy
(while she and her... |
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