Dickens, Monica. An Open Book. Heinemann, 1978.
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Florence Nightingale | Her notoriety (following the war and from her later work) placed FN
in the society of many important contemporaries, including every Prime Minister of her time. Dolan, Josephine A. Nursing In Society: A Historical Perspective. Saunders, 1973. 176 |
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