Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Editorial Materials”. Rousseau Religious Writings, edited by Ronald Grimsley, Clarendon Press.
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Cultural formation | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Brought up a Geneva Protestant, he converted at the age of sixteen to Roman Catholicism
, turned back to Protestantism in his forties, and eventually evolved his own belief in natural religion. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. “Editorial Materials”. Rousseau Religious Writings, edited by Ronald Grimsley, Clarendon Press. 1 |
Cultural formation | Agnes Mary Clerke | |
Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | At some time before her death, AH
converted to Catholicism
(which had been her father's religion). Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press. 7: 175 |
Cultural formation | Naomi Jacob | NJ
was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost... |
Cultural formation | Sara Maitland | Brought up a Presbyterian
, SM
was received into the Anglo-Catholic church in 1972 (the year of her marriage and of her husband's appointment as a parish priest) and later became a Roman Catholic
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Cultural formation | Winifred Maxwell, Countess of Nithsdale | She came from an ancient, noble, Roman Catholic
family, who were English with some claim to be Welsh. Sheffield Grace
, who wrote comments on her famous letter in 1827, ascribed her qualities to her... |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Boulger | Born to an English propertied family that in her generation was part of the British colonial administrative class, DB
incorporated her experiences in South America into some of her later writing. She was or became... |
Cultural formation | Teresa Deevy | TD
was an Irishwoman, presumably white, brought up in the Catholic Church
. Her parents belonged, says her editor, to the prosperous Waterford merchant class. Deevy, Teresa. “Chapter One, Ineffable Longings: the Dramas of Teresa Deevy”. Selected Plays of Irish playwright Teresa Deevy, 1894-1963, edited by Éibhear Walshe, Edwin Mellen Press, pp. 1-15. 4 |
Cultural formation | Antonia Fraser | Antonia converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a... |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
described herself as having been born in the very bosom of Puritan England, and fed daily upon the strict letter of the Scripture from aged lips which I regarded with profound reverence. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. 347 |
Cultural formation | Harriet Hamilton King | Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism
... |
Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | Alice Thompson (later AM
) converted to Catholicism
at Malvern, where she was recuperating from an illness. The old Dictionary of National Biography placed AM
's conversion four years after this. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 98 Badeni, June. The Slender Tree: A Life of Alice Meynell. Tabb House. 35 |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic
identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church
and she was herself baptised as an Anglican. |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | As a child, VA
was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus. 37, 45 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 233 |
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... |
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