Moorhead, Joanna. The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington. Virago Press, 2017.
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Cultural formation | Leonora Carrington | |
Cultural formation | Claire Keegan | |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic
. He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his... |
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 | Coventry Patmore | After the death of his first wife
, CP
converted from Anglicanism
to Roman Catholicism
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Jane Barker | Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England
(into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism
, to which as an... |
Cultural formation | Frances Sarah Hoey | John Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and on her marriage FSH
converted to Catholicism
. Catholicism is not usually an issue in her fiction (with the exception of the anti-divorce novel Out of Court... |
Cultural formation | Kate Chopin | KC
had a cultural heritage which was both French Creole (her mother's family had come to Louisiana centuries earlier from northern France) and Irish. She was a presumably white American, of a well-to-do... |
Cultural formation | Clotilde Graves | Born in Ireland of presumably white, probably Anglo-Irish heritage, CG
converted to Catholicism
in 1896. |
Cultural formation | Frances Boothby | She clearly sprang from an educated segment of society, probably the gentry. It seems fairly certain that she was a Roman Catholic
. |
Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | After converting to Roman Catholicism
the previous year, MH
was confirmed in that faith by the Prince-Bishop of Brixen (now Bressanone, a town in the Italian Tyrol). Woodring, Carl Ray. Victorian Samplers: William and Mary Howitt. University of Kansas Press, 1952. 225 |
Cultural formation | Marie Belloc Lowndes | MBL
was born into the Roman CatholicChurch
(to which her mother had converted and of which her brother later became a champion), and she remained a devout Catholic until her death, to the bafflement of... |
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, 1922. 53 |
Cultural formation | Naomi Royde-Smith | Born into the professional middle class, NRS
had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins. Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol. 218 , No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21. |
Cultural formation | Radclyffe Hall | With the support of her older lover, Ladye
, RH
converted to Catholicism
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 81-2 |
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