Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995.
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Family and Intimate relationships | Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale | Winifred's father, William Herbert
, was a major land-owner in the Welsh marches and Wales proper, a convinced and hereditary monarchist, as active in government as his Catholic
religion allowed, a courtier and a soldier... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Caroline Norton | By chance his father as well as his mother was with him. Though he had converted to Roman Catholicism
he was buried with his younger brother. Chedzoy, Alan. A Scandalous Woman: The Story of Caroline Norton. Allison and Busby, 1995. 268-9 |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
Friends, Associates | T. S. Eliot | Mirrlees
was a Roman Catholic
convert of some years' standing at the time of her closest contact with Eliot. John Hayward
was a talented, acerbic, clubbable scholar crippled by muscular dystrophy. Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984. 274-5 |
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