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Cultural formation | Radclyffe Hall | RH
's belief in spiritualism was in conflict with her Catholicism
. The Catholic Church did not condone spiritualism and she could not find a confessor who approved of her meetings with the medium she... |
Cultural formation | Jennifer Johnston | She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice. Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen. 52 |
Cultural formation | Hilary Mantel | At seven, [l]ike every other little Catholic
body, she was confirmed and made her first Communion. About this time, while endeavouring to achieve holiness, she felt her endeavour undermined or reversed by a startlingly mundane... |
Cultural formation | Julia O'Faolain | JOF
was born to intense paternal concern about Irish nationality, to indignation at the power of the Roman Catholic Church
(in which, nevertheless, she was confirmed at ten years old), and a conviction that national... |
Cultural formation | Enid Blyton | She was brought up a Baptist
(baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to... |
Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau | |
Cultural formation | Selima Hill | She came from a well-educated, Bohemian family of atheists who, however, sent her to a Roman Catholic
school. Taylor, Debbie. “Interview with Selima Hill”. Mslexia, Vol. 6 , pp. 39-40. 39 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte McCarthy | She was an Irish gentlewoman and apparently a Roman Catholic
or ex-Catholic, though of heterodox tendencies. She goes into some detail in discussing the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church, but is highly critical... |
Cultural formation | Alexander Pope | Since he was born and faithfully remained a Catholic
, he was excluded from university, from government jobs, and latterly from residing in London or owning a horse worth more than a certain sum. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | She was baptised in the Church of England
but by 1912, MAD
had converted to Catholicism
. Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Cultural formation | Hope Mirrlees | HM
was born into a wealthy business family which struck Virginia Woolf as typical[ly] English Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press. 3: 200 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Holland | Born to an upper-class, religiously mixed (or divided) couple, CH
chose the Catholicism
of her gentle mother in preference to the Protestantism of her severe and earnest father before she understood what Catholicism meant. Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne. 272-4 |
Cultural formation | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist
mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection
, and an Irish, originally Catholic
, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish... |
Cultural formation | Una Troubridge | Throughout her investigation into spiritualism, UT
felt herself in conflict because the Roman Catholic Church
, to which she still remained devoted, had vetoed all spiritualist practices and beliefs. She was able, however, to find... |
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