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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 | Dorothy Boulger | Born to an English propertied family that in her generation was part of the British colonial administrative class, DB
incorporated her experiences in South America into some of her later writing. She was or became... |
Cultural formation | E. Nesbit | EN
became a Roman Catholic
a couple of years after her husband had done so in 1900, but their practice of their new religion seems to have been the minimum required, and they did not... |
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 | 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 | Flannery O'Connor | |
Cultural formation | Catharine Trotter | While a young woman CT
converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism
, the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian
religion were of no importance... |
Cultural formation | Jean Rhys | JR
was at one time attracted to Catholicism
, mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. 1st ed., Deutsch, 1979. 77 |
Cultural formation | Emily Hickey | Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland
, she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 167 Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969. 17, 18 |
Cultural formation | Annie Keary | She then went through a spiritual night Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882. 141 Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882. 140-1 |
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