Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books, 1991.
167, 187, 34
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Cultural formation | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was born into the English lower middle class. She says her family had been quite well off until the slump of 1929, but then they had lost everything. She converted to Catholicism
during her... |
Cultural formation | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
is a Roman Catholic
, and commented in a 25 June 1990 interview with Susan Shaw Seiler
that relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Belfast are very different from what they were when... |
Cultural formation | Helen Dunmore | HD
's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic
Englishwoman. Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books, 1991. 167, 187, 34 |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Waugh | It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW
converted to Catholicism
. He was received into the Church on 29 September that year. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Ali Smith | AS
's Catholic
childhood was an apparent anomaly “Ali Smith interview”. Noted Listener Archive, 19 Nov. 2011. Murray, Isobel, editor. “Ali Smith”. Scottish Writers Talking 3, John Donald, 2006, pp. 186-29. 189 |
Cultural formation | Rumer Godden | Late in life RG
became a Roman Catholic
, as did her daughters and their husbands. She was converted by friendship with the Jesuit Archbishop Roberts
, formerly Archbishop of Bombay. She had formed a... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | During the Interregnum, Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) became a Roman Catholic
convert. Her conversion was said to reflect the influence of Henry Turberville
, a priest who was extremely influential in his lifetime and (through... |
Cultural formation | Maria Theresa Longworth | She was brought up in a presumably white, English, middle-class household, heaede by a manufacturer father and without a mother (who died when she was very young). She converted to Roman Catholicism
at a very... |
Cultural formation | Blanche Warre Cornish | BWC
's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church
, and... |
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 | Mary Ward | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Guest | CG
remained a member of the Church of England
(with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters
were doing a better... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Jennings | When she was thirteen or fourteen EJ
first began to question the Roman Catholic
faith in which she was being brought up. But she remained a faithful (though troubled) Catholic, always closely concerned with religion... |
Cultural formation | Lucas Malet | She apparently felt the Catholic Church to be female: the great mother church of Christendom
. qtd. in “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | AB
was received into the Catholic Church
in Farm Street, London, by Father Charles Martindale
. Hoehn, Matthew, editor. Catholic Authors. St Mary’s Abbey, 1952. |
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