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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation John Oliver Hobbes
Pearl Craigie (JOH ) entered the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony at St James's Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London. She now assumed the name Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie.
Harding, Mildred Davis. Air-Bird in the Water. Associated University Presses, 1996.
77
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
AK was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church three years after her marriage, at least in part to avoid the duties of a vicar's wife.
Pert, Alan. Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford. Books and Writers, 2006.
36
Maitland, Edward. Anna Kingsford. George Redway, 1896, 2 vols.
1: 14-15
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Beryl Bainbridge
BB was born into the English lower middle class. She says her family had been quite well off until the slump of 1929, but then they had lost everything. She converted to Catholicism during her...
Cultural formation Helen Dunmore
HD 's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic Englishwoman.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books, 1991.
167, 187, 34
Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW converted to Catholicism . He was received into the Church on 29 September that year.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Jane Squire
An accusation was brought against JA of being a Popish recusant convict, that is of practising the outlawed Roman Catholic religion. The charge (which was dismissed) probably had something to do with her ongoing court case.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Thomas Moore
He came from an Irish Catholic family, though he spent much of his adulthood in England. Despite his Catholic upbringing, he lived like a Protestant and thought like a Deist.
qtd. in
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
96
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Blanche Warre Cornish
BWC 's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church , and...
Cultural formation Mary Ward
MW was a pious Catholic as a child: she was said to shun sports and pastimes, preferring to read spiritual books, to perform exercises of penance like wearing a rough, uncomfortable girdle, and to humble...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Shirley
Born into the English gentry, ES was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic:
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
that is to say, a member of the Church of England . Her eldest brother, for...
Cultural formation Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
HG, a Roman Catholic nun, was a Saxon, that is in modern terms a German. However, the first English scholar to discover her, Laurence Humfrey in the sixteenth century, so much wanted her to be...
Cultural formation E. M. Delafield
EMD grew up in an upper-class family. Her father was descended from French Catholic aristocrats (whose title was not officially recognised in England), and her mother from English squires. She was given a strict Victorian...
Cultural formation Georgiana Fullerton
GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Wiseman, Nicholas, editor. The Dublin Review. Burns and Oates.
20 (October 1888): 324
Cultural formation Ann Hatton
At some time before her death, AH converted to Catholicism (which had been her father's religion).
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
7: 175
Cultural formation Flannery O'Connor
FOC was an American, Catholic of Irish descent, imbued with, though not wholly enamoured of, the traditions of the old South.
Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
15-17
She is on record as saying: I sure am sick of the Civil...

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