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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation George Douglas
GD was born into the nobility, of a Scottish father and an English mother. Her mother altered the course of her life by converting to Roman Catholicism , which her elder daughter also enthusiastically embraced.
Cultural formation Hope Mirrlees
HM was born into a wealthy business family which struck Virginia Woolf as typical[ly] English
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
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(though in fact both of her parents were Scots). She converted to Roman Catholicism in the late 1920s....
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 Caroline Chisholm
Near the time of her marriage, CC converted to Catholicism , her husband's faith. From this point onwards she remained a devout Catholic.
Kiddle, Margaret, and Sir Douglas Copland. Caroline Chisholm. Melbourne University Press.
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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 Anna Maria Hall
Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican Church. AMH encountered many practising Catholic s while living with her maternal step-grandfather , who often entertained...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Oxenbridge, Lady Tyrwhit
Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism . (As the Puritan John Field put it...
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...
Cultural formation Louisa Stuart Costello
Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
The fact that her brother received Anglican baptism years after his birth suggests that the family may perhaps have been Catholics before that.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cultural formation Martha Fowke
MF came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican .
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.
Throughout her life (which she said was too quiet to be of interest to the public) she...
Cultural formation Florence Marryat
A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.
Cultural formation Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP , who had long ceased to be a Unitarian and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism .
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan.
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Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press.
Cultural formation G. B. Stern
At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.

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