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Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant
and her father a Catholic
. They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage... |
Cultural formation | Florence Marryat | She was born into the English middle class (although her mother was Scottish, her maternal grandfather and her father served much abroad, and her paternal grandmother was American of German descent). Presumably white, she became... |
Cultural formation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | By December 1860 BLSB
was sufficiently interested in Roman Catholicism
(to which Bessie Rayner Parkes
later converted) to write about her interest to George Eliot
, who responded with sympathy but a clear statement of... |
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 | 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. 6, 19 |
Cultural formation | Marcel Proust | MP
was born into an upper-middle class family. His father, Adrian
, was a Catholic
doctor and his mother, born Jeanne Weils
, was a wealthy Jewish heiress. When she died, Marcel inherited aproximately 1,350,000... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | She was baptised in the Church of England
but by 1912, MAD
had converted to Catholicism
. Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Cultural formation | Catherine Holland | Born to an upper-class, religiously mixed (or divided) couple, CH
chose the Catholicism
of her gentle mother in preference to the Protestantism of her severe and earnest father before she understood what Catholicism meant. Durrant, Catherine S. A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs. Burns, Oates and Washbourne. 272-4 |
Cultural formation | Mary Lavin | ML
was a Roman Catholic
. In Massachusetts religious observance was a relaxed affair. An altar was set up for Mass every Saturday night in the local movie house after the films were over, and... |
Cultural formation | Christina Rossetti | She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch
, she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura... |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | Mary Ackland (later VA
) was received (with her new husband, Richard Turpin
) into the Catholic
Church. Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 233 Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus. 104 |
Cultural formation | Lucy Cary | Lady Falkland
's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants... |
Cultural formation | Germaine Greer | Confirmed as a Roman Catholic
as a child, GG
at fourteen was into fasting and kneeling in prayer in the church for hours on end, in a fervour which she later identified as sexual. Her... |
Cultural formation | Lucille Iremonger | She was born a Creole or white West Indian of English, Scottish, and French origins. She made her adult life as an Englishwoman. Her father was an Anglican while her mother was a bad Catholic... |
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