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.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | |
| Cultural formation | Flora Shaw | FS
was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's... |
| 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 | Dante Alighieri | He was born into the Florentine upper classes, and was a member of the Guelph or Guelf party in the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines, and later a supporter of the White Guelph party... |
| Cultural formation | John Oliver Hobbes | Pearl Craigie (JOH
) entered the Roman Catholic Church
at a ceremony at St James's Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London. She now assumed the name Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie. Harding, Mildred Davis. Air-Bird in the Water. Associated University Presses. 77 |
| Cultural formation | Adelaide O'Keeffe | AOK
was an Irishwoman born (on both sides) into the Dublin theatre world, though her father had gentry origins. Her mother was Protestant
, and her father Catholic
. AOK
says that she never experienced... |
| 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 | Evelyn Waugh | Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican
, EW
renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism
in 1930. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span>”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0. 184 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
converted to Roman Catholicism
by the mid-1910s and explored religious issues in some of the writing she published during the period. For example, her devotional book Sanctuary (1916) contains a preface by Charles Galton |
| Cultural formation | Anna Kingsford | As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
. She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society
to form the... |
| Cultural formation | Mary McCarthy | She was born into the white American middle class. One of her grandparents was Jewish. The Catholic
girlhood which she later wrote about was inflicted on her by her devout maternal grandparents. |
| Cultural formation | Katherine Cecil Thurston | |
| 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 | Valentine Ackland | |
| Cultural formation | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Brought up and educated as a RomanCatholic
, SACD
lost hisfaith before he left school. He later adopted a fairly eclectic form of spiritualism. |
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