Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Philip Larkin | At HullPL
established terms of easy friendship with the then small group of mostly female, young, and unmarried library staff. From the end of 1960 he developed a close or romantic friendship, eventually a... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Vera Brittain | VB
named her daughter after Charlotte Brontë
's character. The child Shirley Catlin was already a Roman Catholic
, a role she later combined with that of social democrat. She came second to Elizabeth Taylor |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Roper | The family of Thomas More
were merchants and lawyers of London's bourgeois ruling class: Thomas duly became a lawyer and out of personal passion became a scholar of the new humanist learning. He married again... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
was so unfortunate as to have a great many Relations (most of them Roman Catholics
) who joined the Jacobite
rebellion of 1715. Cowper, Mary, Countess. Diary. Editor Cowper, Charles Spencer, John Murray, 1864. 56-57 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Justice | Re-united with her younger daughter, EJ
found that the girl was ill, and had been converted to Roman Catholicism
in France. She took care of her daughter and re-converted her to the Church of England |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Spark | The close of MS
's erotic relationship with Howard Sergeant
(with whom, however, her friendship continued for a while) coincided with a gradual movement towards Derek Stanford
, a fellow-member of postwar London bohemia, who... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Mozley | HM
became finally estranged from her brother, John Henry Newman
(after years of intellectual argument), when he converted to Roman Catholicism
. Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962. 33, 163 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriett Mozley | Harriett's eldest brother, John Henry Newman
, became first a clergyman and national religious leader of the Anglican Church
, then a Catholic
, and eventually a Cardinal. Mozley, Dorothea, editor. Newman Family Letters. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1962. xvi |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon
, was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Lucy Herbert | Lucy's father, William Herbert
, owned estates in Wales and the Welsh marches, although much of the family's large properties had been forfeited after they fought for the monarchy in the English Civil War... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Basset | Despite her personal achievements, Margaret Roper's fame has and to some extent still does rest primarily on her status as the eldest and favourite daughter of Thomas More
, Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII |
| Friends, Associates | Catharine Trotter | Thomas Burnet of Kemnay
wrote the first of his surviving letters to CT
; he was at this date thinking of her as a potential wife, and was concerned to convert her from Roman Catholicism
. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 199 |
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