Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920.
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Cultural formation | Charlotte Dempster | CD
grew up in the Church of Scotland
, but converted to Roman Catholicism
in 1891 after a decade living in France. Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920. 7 |
Cultural formation | Una Troubridge | In 1929 UT
began to question the Catholic Church's position on sexual inversion. She felt disillusioned by the Church authorities: I begin to doubt whether authority has any place where the invert may lay... |
Cultural formation | Michèle Roberts | She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR
implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989. 163 |
Cultural formation | Julia Kavanagh | Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic
and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. |
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, 1985. 37, 45 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora, 1988. 233 |
Cultural formation | Anne Carson | AC
's mother was a Roman Catholic
and the two attended church together for much of her childhood. Wachtel, Eleanor. “An Interview With Anne Carson”. Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 89, 1 June 2012– 2025, pp. 29-53. 45 |
Cultural formation | George Douglas | |
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
. |
Cultural formation | Fanny Kingsley | FK
was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms
describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic... |
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, 1981. 35 |
Cultural formation | Hélène Cixous | Early in life, HC
also saw both of her parents suffer racism. At three years old, she discovered what being Jewish meant in Oran. When her father, a military officer during the war, took... |
Cultural formation | Agnes Giberne | AG
, a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England
, in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by... |
Cultural formation | Frances Boothby | She clearly sprang from an educated segment of society, probably the gentry. It seems fairly certain that she was a Roman Catholic
. |
Cultural formation | Michael Field | Edith Cooper
and Katharine Harris Bradley
(known as the poet MF
) were each received into the Roman Catholic
Church. Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922. 53 |
Cultural formation | Anne Sexton | AS
has been discussed as a religious writer who, slightly ahead of her time, intuited the need for a feminist revision of patriarchal monotheism. She centred a play on the Roman Catholic Mass, and some... |
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