McCormack, Declan. “The Butterfly on the Wheel”. The Independent, 24 Sept. 2000.
24 September 2000
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Katherine Cecil Thurston | Both of KCT
's parents were Irish Catholics
, and in comfortable financial circumstances. Her birth family was comprised of professionals and merchants, members of the rising middle class. McCormack, Declan. “The Butterfly on the Wheel”. The Independent, 24 Sept. 2000. 24 September 2000 |
Cultural formation | Adelaide Procter | AP
may have converted to Roman Catholicism
from Anglicanism by this date; certainly she had by 1851. Sources conflict on the date of AP
's conversion, most of them dating it in 1851. Bessie Rayner Parkes |
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 | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was born into the English lower middle class. She says her family had been quite well off until the slump of 1929, but then they had lost everything. She converted to Catholicism
during her... |
Cultural formation | Mary Martin | She grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic
family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant |
Cultural formation | Helen Dunmore | HD
's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic
Englishwoman. Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books, 1991. 167, 187, 34 |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Waugh | It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW
converted to Catholicism
. He was received into the Church on 29 September that year. 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/. |
Cultural formation | Jane Owen | |
Cultural formation | Hope Mirrlees | HM
quietly converted to Roman Catholicism
. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols. 3: 268 |
Cultural formation | Blanche Warre Cornish | BWC
's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church
, and... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ward | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Inchbald | She came from a family of Catholic
farmers, middle-class people who were liked and respected by the local gentry. Manvell, Roger. Elizabeth Inchbald: England’s Principal Woman Dramatist and Independent Woman of Letters in 18th Century London. University Press of America, 1987. 3 |
Cultural formation | E. Nesbit | |
Cultural formation | E. M. Delafield |
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