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Cultural formation Bessie Head
Brought up by a Roman Catholic foster-mother, sent to an Anglican mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next,
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. 2nd edition, Wits University Press, 2007.
20, 25
she wrote later that for years...
Cultural formation Florence Dixie
Two of the older children willingly followed their mother into the Roman Catholic Church. Florence and her twin went through the terrors of a first confession, but as she later put it, [h]uman nature does...
Cultural formation Katherine Cecil Thurston
Both of KCT 's parents were Irish Catholics , and in comfortable financial circumstances. Her birth family was comprised of professionals and merchants, members of the rising middle class.
McCormack, Declan. “The Butterfly on the Wheel”. The Independent, 24 Sept. 2000.
24 September 2000
Her childhood home...
Cultural formation Adelaide Procter
AP may have converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism by this date; certainly she had by 1851.
Sources conflict on the date of AP 's conversion, most of them dating it in 1851. Bessie Rayner Parkes
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...
Cultural formation Mary McCarthy
She was born into the white American middle class. One of her grandparents was Jewish. The Catholic girlhood which she later wrote about was inflicted on her by her devout maternal grandparents.
Cultural formation Hélène Barcynska
She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...
Cultural formation Caroline Chisholm
Protestant minister John Dunmore Lang 's bitter anti-Catholic denunciation of CC 's immigration work prompted lively correspondence in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, 1957.
81-4
Cultural formation Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
COCE was born into the Irish, Roman Catholic , professional or gentry class, with descent from ancient royalty. Her family had great pride of race: when she was barely in her teens, genealogist John O'Hart
Cultural formation Jane Squire
She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic , who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Jane Owen
JO , a member of a family whose Established Church forebears had acquired wealth a couple of generations back, was a fervent Catholic apparently from her birth, at a time when to be a Catholic...
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 Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...
Cultural formation Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...
Cultural formation Enid Blyton
She was brought up a Baptist (baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to...

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