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Cultural formation | Ray Strachey | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an English gentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was... |
Cultural formation | Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
Cultural formation | Viola Meynell | VM
's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics
such as the poets Francis Thompson
and Coventry Patmore
. She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's... |
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. 3 |
Cultural formation | Dorothea Celesia | Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She... |
Cultural formation | John Dryden | Dryden parallelled his former switch in political allegiance in probably 1685, with a switch of religious allegiance, converting from Anglicanism to Catholicism
. He was vulnerable to charges of time-serving since he did this at... |
Cultural formation | Graham Greene | Born into the English professional class, GG
became a RomanCatholic
because of the woman he married. He always remained a Catholic, but his novels frequently treat the pain of conflicted religious belief, and late in... |
Cultural formation | E. Nesbit | |
Cultural formation | Janet Schaw | JS
was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian
by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ward | Born into the English gentry at a period of harsh persecution, she was a cradle Catholic
(and a fervent one) whose ideas for new departures within the Church often led her into conflict with its... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
, arranged the abduction her two youngest sons, Henry and Patrick
, at their own wish, from Great Tew to travel to Europe and be educated as Catholics
. Serjeantson, R. W. “Elizabeth Cary and the Great Tew Circle”. The Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680, edited by Heather Wolfe, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 165-82. 170 Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, and Lucy Cary. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller and Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California Press, pp. 1 - 59; various pages. 8, 181 Cary, Lucy, and Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland. “The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters”. The Tragedy of Mariam, The Fair Queen of Jewry; with, The Lady Falkland: Her Life by One of Her Daughters, edited by Barry Weller et al., University of California Press, pp. 183-75. 259 |
Cultural formation | Seamus Heaney | He grew up surrounded by casual English and Ulster Protestant
prejudice against Catholics
, and was accustomed to being regarded as a second-class citizen. Fox, Margaret, and James McKinley. “Keeper of the Irish Essence”. The Globe and Mail, p. S12. |
Cultural formation | Kate O'Brien | |
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/. |
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