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Cultural formation | Elizabeth De la Pasture | She came from an upper-class English family: her great-grandfather was a baronet. She was presumably a Roman Catholic
, since she married two Catholic husbands. |
Cultural formation | Graham Greene | In 1926 GG
converted to Roman Catholicism
at the insistence of his fiancée, Vivien Dayrell-Browning
. His baptism was a banal affair at a dark cathedral in Nottingham, full of inferior statues. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 15 |
Cultural formation | Edna Lyall | Her family had been Roman Catholic
back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England. Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. 3 |
Cultural formation | Dervla Murphy | |
Cultural formation | Mary Butts | During her second marriage MB
took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic
. Naomi Royde-Smith
(herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts... |
Cultural formation | Monica Dickens | MD
was born into a wealthy bourgeois family descended from Charles Dickens. Her father (who was half-English, half French-German) had to face family disapproval when he chose his bride, not because her father was German... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Justice | EJ
was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England
(with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox
and of the Roman Catholic Churches
)... |
Cultural formation | Florence Marryat | FM
attended her first seance, by permission of her (Roman Catholic
) spiritual director, Father Dalgairns of Brompton Oratory. Neisius, Jean Gano. Acting the Role of Romance: Text and Subtext in the Work of Florence Marryat. Texas Christian University, May 1992. 72 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
converted to Catholicism
from the Church of Ireland
. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
Cultural formation | Gertrude Thimelby | GT
was a member of an English gentry family who became Roman Catholics
during her childhood. Her minority religious allegiance shaped her life. |
Cultural formation | Georgiana Chatterton | Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England
clergyman, GC
came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 7-19 |
Cultural formation | Alexander Pope | Since he was born and faithfully remained a Catholic
, he was excluded from university, from government jobs, and latterly from residing in London or owning a horse worth more than a certain sum. |
Cultural formation | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | Though she attended a Presbyterian
school, MS
was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested Spark, Muriel. “My Conversion”. Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, G. K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, 1992, pp. 24-28. 24 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Cookson | CC
fell into severe depression once more. Her serious illness was compounded by pressure from various Catholic acquaintances and her own thoughts, which increasingly turned to death. In this condition she had a spiritual experience... |
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