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Cultural formation | Lucy Cary | Lady Falkland
's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants... |
Cultural formation | Graham Greene | In 1926 GG
converted to Roman Catholicism
at the insistence of his fiancée, Vivien Dayrell-Browning
. His baptism was a banal affair at a dark cathedral in Nottingham, full of inferior statues. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 15 |
Cultural formation | George Douglas | GD
was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism
, which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced. |
Cultural formation | Edna Lyall | Her family had been Roman Catholic
back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England. Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. 3 |
Cultural formation | Dervla Murphy | |
Cultural formation | Elma Napier | EN
was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian
, the family attended a Presbyterian
kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her... |
Cultural formation | Mary Basset | MB
was a Roman Catholic
and a humanist, like the rest of her English, professional-class, and unusually scholarly family. |
Cultural formation | Agnes Mary Clerke | |
Cultural formation | Edna O'Brien | |
Cultural formation | Gertrude Thimelby | GT
was a member of an English gentry family who became Roman Catholics
during her childhood. Her minority religious allegiance shaped her life. |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland
member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic
, Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts... |
Cultural formation | Alexander Pope | Since he was born and faithfully remained a Catholic
, he was excluded from university, from government jobs, and latterly from residing in London or owning a horse worth more than a certain sum. |
Cultural formation | Dante Alighieri | He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party... |
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 | Muriel Spark | Though she attended a Presbyterian
school, MS
was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested Spark, Muriel. “My Conversion”. Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, G. K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, 1992, pp. 24-28. 24 |
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