Huggins, Margaret Lindsay, Lady, and Aubrey St John Clerke. Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke. Printed for private circulation, 1907.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Mary Basset | MB
was a Roman Catholic
and a humanist, like the rest of her English, professional-class, and unusually scholarly family. |
| Cultural formation | Agnes Mary Clerke | |
| Cultural formation | Denise Levertov | Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England
, where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and... |
| Cultural formation | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland
member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic
, Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts... |
| Cultural formation | Dante Alighieri | He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party... |
| Cultural formation | Ford Madox Ford | Born of mixed English and German heritage, and on both sides of middle-class families deeply involved in the practice of the arts, FMF
converted to Roman Catholicism
at the age of nineteen, but hardly seems... |
| Cultural formation | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck | |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Grymeston | Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England
came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church
, EG
was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of... |
| Cultural formation | Anne Devlin | AD
grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid. Cerquoni, Enrica. “In Conversation with Anne Devlin”. Theatre Talk: Voices of Irish Theatre Practitioners, edited by Lilian Chambers et al., Carysfort Press, 2001, pp. 107-23. 111 |
| Cultural formation | Lady Lucy Herbert | Her family's titles, wealth, elite status, and remarkable record of high ability were somewhat offset by the RomanCatholic
faith which excluded them from some of the civil rights and privileges possessed by other English or... |
| Cultural formation | Sheila Kaye-Smith | The idea of awaking a feeling of superiority to Italian religion backfired. They saw the Catholic Church in Italy as providing religion not for the few but for the many: that man in the street... |
| Cultural formation | Gillian Allnutt | Born into a nominally Anglican
family of the middle or professional class, GA
is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland |
| Cultural formation | George Douglas | |
| Cultural formation | Antonia White | Years after she had left the Roman Catholic Church
, AW
reconverted to it, just before Christmas. Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985. 130-1 Dunn, Jane. Antonia White: A Life. Jonathan Cape, 1998. 256 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Strickland | Elizabeth, while remaining a practising Anglican
, became remarkable for her capacity to think herself into the mindset of British Roman Catholics
at a time when the generally dominant party in England saw them as... |
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