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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
published a somewhat different kind of memoir in All in Good Time, which describes the train of thinking that brought her from the non-practising Judaism of her childhood into the Roman Catholic Church
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Textual Production | G. B. Stern | GBS
published The Way It Worked Out, a sequel to All in Good Time, which presents her continuing cogitations, as a Catholic, on Judaism and Roman Catholicism
. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 197 |
Cultural formation | G. B. Stern | Both of GBS
's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Stein | Stein's partner Alice Toklas
converted to Catholicism
in 1957, allegedly because she liked the idea of meeting up with Stein in heaven. Castle, Terry. “Husbands and Wives”. London Review of Books, Vol. 29 , No. 24, pp. 10-16. 14 |
Publishing | Christina Stead | Having decided to leave Simon and Schuster
, CS
submitted this work in manuscript to Angus Cameron
of Little Brown
, but she may have done this too early, since he replied that it needed... |
Cultural formation | Christopher St John | At some point after CSJ
met her long-time partner Edith Craig
, she converted from her family's Anglicanism
to Roman Catholicism
. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 389 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 250 |
Cultural formation | Jane Squire | An accusation was brought against JA of being a Popish recusant convict, that is of practising the outlawed Roman Catholic
religion. The charge (which was dismissed) probably had something to do with her ongoing court case. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Jane Squire | She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic
, who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | The book does not measure up to the force and clarity of the opening. The suggestively-named Deletia Granville is a mysterious, neglected young girl at the outset, pensive and literary, loving sublime nature and her... |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was received into the Roman Catholic
Church by a Maltese priest, Dom Ambrose Agius
(or Aegius), whom she had met earlier at the Poetry Society
. Spark, Muriel. Curriculum Vitae: Autobiography. Constable. 202-3 |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | Though she attended a Presbyterian
school, MS
was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested Spark, Muriel. “My Conversion”. Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, G. K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, pp. 24-28. 24 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Muriel Spark | The close of MS
's erotic relationship with Howard Sergeant
(with whom, however, her friendship continued for a while) coincided with a gradual movement towards Derek Stanford
, a fellow-member of postwar London bohemia, who... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Muriel Spark | The book's title comes from the book of Job (a text on which MS
had planned a monograph, and did write a related article). Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 165 |
Textual Features | Susan Smythies | SS
's modesty was well founded. The novel that follows is a more conventional romance than any of Richardson
's, though it makes much reference to Sir Charles Grandison, and also cites Pamela (though... |
Cultural formation | Ali Smith | She grew up with English and Irish Catholic
parents of working-class background, living in council housing behind the Caledonian Canal at 92 St Valery in Inverness. The Smith family was fortunate to secure such... |
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