Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson, 1980.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
| Cultural formation | Charlotte Despard | She converted to Catholicism
less than a year after her husband's death, which made her a co-religionist of those she now set out to help. Linklater, Andro. An Unhusbanded Life. Hutchinson, 1980. 63 |
| Cultural formation | Catharine Trotter | CT
was a middle-class woman of Scottish parentage, with aristocratic connections and Roman Catholic
heritage on her mother's side. Kelley, Anne. Catharine Trotter: An Early Modern Writer in the Vanguard of Feminism. Ashgate, 2002. 3 |
| 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 | Florence Marryat | A Roman Catholic
, FM
also developed an interest in spiritualism. |
| Cultural formation | Jane Francesca Lady Wilde | Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican
faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism
. She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons. Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. 6, 19 |
| 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 | Charlotte Mew | Charlotte Mew
was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with... |
| Cultural formation | Olivia Clarke | |
| Cultural formation | Queen Elizabeth I | Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr
in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican
, probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to... |
| Cultural formation | Sarah Waters | SW
grew up as a Roman Catholic
in the British lower middle class (with English and Welsh roots, describing herself as Welsh). Like many others, her family had risen in the world, since her grandparents... |
| Cultural formation | Anne Dacier | Shortly before the revoking of the Edict of Nantes on 22 October (when as Protestants
they would have lost their claim to tolerance and religious freedom) AD
and her husband were received into the Roman Catholic Church |
| Cultural formation | Constantia Grierson | CG
was an Irishwoman. She apparently disliked talking of her early life. All she would tell Laetitia Pilkington was that her parents were poor illiterate Country People. qtd. in Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol. 2 , 1987, pp. 33-56. 36 |
| Cultural formation | Naomi Jacob | Meanwhile in 1914, at a low ebb in her life, NJ
converted to Roman Catholicism
. She took instruction in the faith after reading Confessions of a Convert by R. H. Benson
(a homosexual whose... |
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