Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | Kate Marsden | Aspects of her identity shifted over time. KM
was born into an English, professional, presumably white family of the upper-middle class, who lost their financial security because of her father's early death. Protestant for much... |
| 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 | 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 | Simone de Beauvoir | This family spanned a number of the influences she would later reject: her mother was a fervent Catholic
and her father a conservative in politics and in cultural choices, whereas as a young woman she... |
| Cultural formation | An Collins | AC
was a devout Christian believer. One group of her editors think she was possibly Roman Catholic
, certainly anti-Calvinist; another group thinks she was Calvinist in sympathy. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 148 Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989. 55 |
| 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... |
| 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 | 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 |
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