Hoby, Margaret. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605, edited by Joanna Moody, Sutton, 1998, p. xv - lvii.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Gillian Allnutt | GA
was educated at convent and grammar schools. Although her family were nominally Anglicans, she and her middle sister were enrolled in a Roman Catholic
convent school inLondon, which their mother had once... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ethel M. Arnold | Her father, Thomas Arnold
the younger, was the eldest and favourite son of Doctor Arnold
, of Rugby
. The Arnolds were a staunchly Anglican
family, but her father shocked his family by converting to... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | May Laffan | ML
's father, Michael Laffan
, was a Catholic
, but had attended a Protestant school. He was the Custom House officer of Blackrock, County Dublin (a surprisingly high position for a Catholic to hold... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Hoby | The marriage took place at her new mother-in-law's house in Blackfriars Road, London. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Charlotte Godley | Charlotte's brother John
became a Jesuit priest after converting to Roman Catholicism
, without apparently upsetting the family. Garner, Jean. “The First ‘First Lady’: Charlotte Godley, 1821-1907”. Remembering Godley, edited by Mark Stocker, Hazard Press, 2001, pp. 56-77. 57 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold
(father of the future MAW
) abandoned Roman Catholicism
and returned to the Church of England
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 24 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | MAW
's father
reconverted to Catholicism
: a crushing blow to his family. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press, 1990. 67 “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 18 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Georgiana Chatterton | Edward Heneage Dering
, second husband of GC
, converted to Roman Catholicism
. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 152 “The Ferrers of Baddesley Clinton”. Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Stein | Stein's partner Alice Toklas
converted to Catholicism
in 1957, allegedly because she liked the idea of meeting up with Stein in heaven. Castle, Terry. “Husbands and Wives”. London Review of Books, Vol. 29 , No. 24, 13 Dec. 2007, pp. 10-16. 14 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Monica Dickens | MD
married Roy O. Stratton
, a US naval commander, in Princeton, USA, in the vestry of a Roman Catholic
church which would not allow a Protestant (Stratton) to be married in its sanctuary. Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann, 1978. 128-9 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Evelyn Waugh | The marriage lasted only a little over a year. EW
filed for divorce on 3 September 1929, after his wife was unfaithful to him. The rapid end of this marriage shook him badly. Since he... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine Greer | GG
's mother, born Margaret Mary Lafrank
, known as Peggy, worked as a milliner and as a performer before she was married. Since she was a Roman Catholic
, the Protestant man she married... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Christina Rossetti | CR
's engagement to James Collinson
ended, some time after he had returned to the Roman Catholic faith
. Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995. 113 Battiscombe, Georgina. Christina Rossetti: A Divided Life. Constable, 1981. 55-7 Smulders, Sharon. Christina Rossetti Revisited. Twayne, 1996. xi |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Dixie | The widowed mother
of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD
) converted to Roman Catholicism
and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor
) with her younger children, lest their guardians should... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | John Oliver Hobbes | One of her most notable personal and professional relationships was with the novelist George Moore
. The pair met in 1893, and Moore appears to have fallen in love with the then-still-married Hobbes. A break... |
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