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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 | Kathleen Raine | KR
was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist
faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism
by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her... |
Cultural formation | Dorothea Gerard | Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church
to Roman Catholicism
too early for her to remember it. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 145 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. under Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | During the Interregnum, Susanna Harvey (later Hopton) became a Roman Catholic
convert. Her conversion was said to reflect the influence of Henry Turberville
, a priest who was extremely influential in his lifetime and (through... |
Cultural formation | Gillian Allnutt | Born into a nominally Anglican
family of the middle or professional class, GA
is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland |
Cultural formation | Maria Theresa Longworth | She was brought up in a presumably white, English, middle-class household, heaede by a manufacturer father and without a mother (who died when she was very young). She converted to Roman Catholicism
at a very... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Charles | She was born into a supportive, professional English family. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray. 6, passim |
Cultural formation | Agnes Wenman | She belonged to the English gentry class, but within her class she belonged to a disadvantaged minority: she was, like her family, a recusant Catholic
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Cultural formation | Dervla Murphy | |
Cultural formation | Daphne Du Maurier | |
Cultural formation | Lucas Malet | LM
was born into the English professional class or intelligentsia. She grew up in the heart of the Church of England
, but later, despite the irreverence with which her writings handle religious topics, converted... |
Cultural formation | Joseph Conrad | He was born into the gentry class, or rather at a level of Polish society which had something of that and something of the British nobility. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church
and... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
converted to Catholicism
from the Church of Ireland
. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland | Her well-to-do father moved from the middle class into the gentry by means of marrying his daughter to a future peer. Brought up a Protestant, she early acquired from her reading a distrust of that... |
Cultural formation | Ali Smith | She grew up with English and Irish Catholic
parents of working-class background, living in council housing behind the Caledonian Canal at 92 St Valery in Inverness. The Smith family was fortunate to secure such... |
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