Chitty, Susan. Now To My Mother. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1985.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 | Antonia White | When Eirene, later Antonia, was seven years old, her father converted to Catholicism
—a decision that had a profound effect on her. She too became a Catholic and remained a nominal one all her life... |
Cultural formation | Oscar Wilde | In the aftermath of his trial, OW
was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism
. |
Textual Features | Romer Wilson | The work is often described as epistolary; it is written in the first person, in letters which are varied with sketches that read almost like diary entries. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Shanks, Edward. “Romer Wilson: Some Observations”. The London Mercury, Vol. 22 , No. 130, Aug. 1930, pp. 343-9. 346 |
Cultural formation | Harriette Wilson | HW
was received into the Roman Catholic Church
under the religious name of Mary Magdalen. Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber, 2003. 294 |
Literary responses | Ethel Wilson | Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan
's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jeanette Winterson | Winterson conjures up an England ruled by a king, James I
, obsessed with stamping out the twin evils of witchcraft and Catholicism
. She identifies the original group on the hill with poor women... |
Textual Features | Ellen Wood | In a subplot Adeline de Castella breaks with her beloved Frederick St John when her Catholic
father forbids her to marry him. The emotion of their parting causes her to break a blood vessel, after... |
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