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Cultural formation | George Douglas | |
Cultural formation | Oscar Wilde | In the aftermath of his trial, OW
was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism
. |
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 | Hélène Cixous | Early in life, HC
also saw both of her parents suffer racism. At three years old, she discovered what being Jewish meant in Oran. When her father, a military officer during the war, took... |
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 Bosanquet Fletcher | The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry... |
Cultural formation | Helen Waddell | Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW
into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress... |
Cultural formation | G. B. Stern | At the end of the Second World War, GBS
converted to Catholicism
from her purely nominal Judaism. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Despard | She converted to Catholicism
less than a year after her husband's death, which made her a co-religionist of those she now set out to help. Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson, 1980. 63 |
Cultural formation | Viola Meynell | VM
's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics
such as the poets Francis Thompson
and Coventry Patmore
. She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's... |
Cultural formation | Catharine Trotter | CT
was a middle-class woman of Scottish parentage, with aristocratic connections and Roman Catholic
heritage on her mother's side. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 3 |
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 |
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