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Cultural formation | Alexander Pope | Since he was born and faithfully remained a Catholic
, he was excluded from university, from government jobs, and latterly from residing in London or owning a horse worth more than a certain sum. |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Mew | Charlotte Mew
was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with... |
Cultural formation | Gillian Allnutt | Born into a nominally Anglican
family of the middle or professional class, GA
is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland |
Cultural formation | George Douglas | |
Cultural formation | Antonia White | Years after she had left the Roman Catholic Church
, AW
reconverted to it, just before Christmas. Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985. 130-1 Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 256 |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | Though she attended a Presbyterian
school, MS
was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested Spark, Muriel. “My Conversion”. Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, G. K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, 1992, pp. 24-28. 24 |
Cultural formation | Emily Gerard | She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church
, which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism
, EG
and... |
Cultural formation | Mary Lavin | ML
was a Roman Catholic
. In Massachusetts religious observance was a relaxed affair. An altar was set up for Mass every Saturday night in the local movie house after the films were over, and... |
Cultural formation | Mary Basset | MB
was a Roman Catholic
and a humanist, like the rest of her English, professional-class, and unusually scholarly family. |
Cultural formation | Agnes Mary Clerke | |
Cultural formation | William Shakespeare | Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS
subscribed to the Church of England
or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism
. Supporters of the Catholic... |
Cultural formation | Lucille Iremonger | She was born a Creole or white West Indian of English, Scottish, and French origins. She made her adult life as an Englishwoman. Her father was an Anglican while her mother was a bad Catholic... |
Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | Towards the end of this period of involvement with Catholicism
, FN
received a second call from God, directing her to devote her life entirely to him. She apparently experienced similar calls in 1850, 1853... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland
member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic
, Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts... |
Cultural formation | Dante Alighieri | He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party... |
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