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Cultural formation | Agnes Giberne | AG
, a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England
, in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by... |
Cultural formation | Thomas Moore | He came from an Irish Catholic
family, though he spent much of his adulthood in England. Despite his Catholic upbringing, he lived like a Protestant and thought like a Deist. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 96 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Helen Dunmore | HD
's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic
Englishwoman. Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books. 167, 187, 34 |
Cultural formation | Augusta Gregory | |
Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | |
Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | The ex-Anglican
leader and Tractarian JHN
completed his conversion by being received into the Roman Catholic
Church. Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press. 316 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Cookson | She was baptised a Roman Catholic
, though her family did not practise: this was called being a wooden Catholic. The interdenominational hatred in the area was fierce and dangerous. After her first confession... |
Cultural formation | Jennifer Johnston | She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice. Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen. 52 |
Cultural formation | Hilary Mantel | At seven, [l]ike every other little Catholic
body, she was confirmed and made her first Communion. About this time, while endeavouring to achieve holiness, she felt her endeavour undermined or reversed by a startlingly mundane... |
Cultural formation | Julia O'Faolain | JOF
was born to intense paternal concern about Irish nationality, to indignation at the power of the Roman Catholic Church
(in which, nevertheless, she was confirmed at ten years old), and a conviction that national... |
Cultural formation | Marina Warner | Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. Williams, Elaine. Marina Warner. Editor Griffiths, Sian, Manchester University Press, pp. 259-67. 261 |
Cultural formation | Shelagh Delaney | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte McCarthy | She was an Irish gentlewoman and apparently a Roman Catholic
or ex-Catholic, though of heterodox tendencies. She goes into some detail in discussing the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church, but is highly critical... |
Cultural formation | Winefrid Thimelby | She was a cradle Catholic
born into an English gentry family which harboured priests, celebrated the mass in secret, and suffered persecution for their faith. A recent commentator, Dorothy L. Latz
, regrets the way... |
Cultural formation | Mary Wesley | MW
and her husband
converted together to Roman Catholicism
, after only six sessions of instruction. Marnham, Patrick. Wild Mary: the Life of Mary Wesley. Chatto and Windus. 172 |
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