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Cultural formation | Flora Shaw | FS
was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's... |
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 | 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 | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker
religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904. 13-14 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cellier | EC
's parents must have been gentry, for they had a family motto: I never change. Cellier, Elizabeth. Malice Defeated and The Matchless Rogue. Editor Gardiner, Anne Barbeau, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1988. 17 |
Cultural formation | Mary Wesley | MW
was born an upper-class Englishwoman, a second daughter who was early aware that her mother was disappointed she was not a boy. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | Alice Thompson (later AM
) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Justice | EJ
was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England
(with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox
and of the Roman Catholic Churches
)... |
Cultural formation | Florence Marryat | FM
attended her first seance, by permission of her (Roman Catholic
) spiritual director, Father Dalgairns of Brompton Oratory. Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University, May 1992. 72 |
Cultural formation | Simone de Beauvoir | This family spanned a number of the influences she would later reject: her mother was a fervent Catholic
and her father a conservative in politics and in cultural choices, whereas as a young woman she... |
Cultural formation | An Collins | AC
was a devout Christian believer. One group of her editors think she was possibly Roman Catholic
, certainly anti-Calvinist; another group thinks she was Calvinist in sympathy. Greer, Germaine et al., editors. Kissing the Rod. Virago, 1988. 148 Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989. 55 |
Cultural formation | Zoë Fairbairns | She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture... |
Cultural formation | Winefrid Thimelby | She was a cradle Catholic
born into an English gentry family which harboured priests, celebrated the mass in secret, and suffered persecution for their faith. A recent commentator, Dorothy L. Latz
, regrets the way... |
Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic
faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism
. (As the Puritan John Field
put it... |
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