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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | Her well-to-do father moved from the middle class into the gentry by means of marrying his daughter to a future peer. Brought up a Protestant, she early acquired from her reading a distrust of that... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ward | Born into the English gentry at a period of harsh persecution, she was a cradle Catholic
(and a fervent one) whose ideas for new departures within the Church often led her into conflict with its... |
Cultural formation | Ali Smith | She grew up with English and Irish Catholic
parents of working-class background, living in council housing behind the Caledonian Canal at 92 St Valery in Inverness. The Smith family was fortunate to secure such... |
Cultural formation | Rumer Godden | For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican
aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH
was baptised into the Church ofEngland
. Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family... |
Cultural formation | E. M. Delafield | At twenty-one, having come of age, Edmée de la Pasture
(later EMD
) entered a Catholic
convent, the mother house of an enclosed order in Belgium. Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988. 12 |
Cultural formation | Janet Schaw | JS
was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian
by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being... |
Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | The ex-Anglican
leader and Tractarian JHN
completed his conversion by being received into the Roman Catholic
Church. Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988. 316 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Byron | When Pope Paul VI
issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth), a prohibition on all forms of birth control, CB
and her husband
(and her mother
) left the Catholic Church |
Cultural formation | Georgiana Chatterton | Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England
clergyman, GC
came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 7-19 |
Cultural formation | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Cultural formation | Ray Strachey | |
Cultural formation | Teresia Constantia Phillips | She was born of a well-connected gentry or professional family on her father's side, of Welsh extraction (presumably white). She became déclassée through her career as a prostitute. It is not clear where her Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | May Laffan | She belonged to the Irish middle class. A Roman Catholic
, she came from a religiously mixed household (highly unusual in deeply sectarian nineteenth-century Ireland). Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005. 13 |
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... |
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