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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Edith Sitwell | ES
was received into the Roman Catholic
Church at Farm Street Church
in Mayfair. Glendinning, Victoria. Edith Sitwell. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981. 318 |
| Cultural formation | Charlotte Godley | It seems her family was tolerant in religious matters. They were Anglicans
, but when one of the brothers became both a Roman Catholic
and a Jesuit priest, his conversion does not seem to have... |
| Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | |
| Cultural formation | Charlotte Mary Brame | Born to English parents, CMB
came from a middle-class, presumably white background. Shortly after her birth her parents, Benjamin and Charlotte Law, converted to Catholicism
. It seems that early fears over the infant Charlotte's... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic
faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism
. (As the Puritan John Field
put it... |
| Cultural formation | Anna Maria Hall | Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican
Church. AMH
encountered many practising Catholic
s while living with her maternal step-grandfather
, who often entertained... |
| Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
converted to Roman Catholicism
by the mid-1910s and explored religious issues in some of the writing she published during the period. For example, her devotional book Sanctuary (1916) contains a preface by Charles Galton |
| Cultural formation | Jean Rhys | JR
was at one time attracted to Catholicism
, mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. 1st ed., Deutsch, 1979. 77 |
| Cultural formation | Emily Hickey | Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland
, she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 167 Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969. 17, 18 |
| Cultural formation | Annie Keary | She then went through a spiritual night Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882. 141 Keary, Eliza. Memoir of Annie Keary. Macmillan, 1882. 140-1 |
| Cultural formation | Daisy Ashford | DA
was born into an English middle-class Roman Catholic
family to middle-aged parents, and brought up in an affectionate home environment. She and her sisters were encouraged to read and write from an early age... |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Charles | She was born into a supportive, professional English family. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements. Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray, 1896. 6, passim |
| Cultural formation | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Brought up and educated as a RomanCatholic
, SACD
lost hisfaith before he left school. He later adopted a fairly eclectic form of spiritualism. |
| Cultural formation | Patricia Wentworth | Dora Amy Elles (later PW
) was a daughter of the Raj, an Englishwoman born into imperial military life in India while her father was serving in the British army there. She returned to England... |
| Cultural formation | Mrs F. C. Patrick | She was an Irishwoman and, it seems, a Roman Catholic
, although perhaps resident in England and certainly capable of trenchant criticism of the practices of the Catholic Church of earlier generations. |
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