Marie-Elsa Bragg

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The Reverend and The Honourable Marie-Elsa Roche Bragg (born 1964or1965) [1] is an English writer, Anglican priest and therapist. [2] [3] [4] [1] [5]

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Early life and education

Bragg describes herself as 'half French, half Cumbrian,' but was born in London where she spent her childhood. Her parents are novelist and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg and his first wife, writer and artist Marie-Elisabeth Roche, who died when Marie-Elsa was aged six. [6] [1]

Her maternal grandfather[ citation needed ] was Jean Roche  [ fr ] (1901-1992) who, together with his wife Andrée Conradi Roche (c1903-1936), was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the thyroid gland and was rector of the Sorbonne between 1961 and 1969. [7]

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Bragg studied aspects of Judaism at Leo Baeck College, Karl Barth and systematic doctrine at King's College London, philosophy and theology at the University of Oxford, and studied for ordination at Ripon College Cuddesdon. She has an MA in prose fiction from the University of East Anglia. [8]

Work

Bragg has written a novel, Towards Mellbreak (Mellbreak is a mountain in Cumbria next to Crummock Water), [9] [10] and a book, Sleeping Letters, which she wrote during a silent retreat and describes as "a mixture of poetry, prose and fragments of un-sent letters to both her mother and father", on the death of her mother when she was a child. [11]

Bragg is a spiritual director, working with groups or individuals. She has been part-time assistant to the Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons; has been a programme director in leadership development at the Said Business School in Oxford; is a director of a coaching and leadership company Westminster Leadership; and has led an interfaith women's project on the difficulties of religious life, among other work. She has worked in a number of London parishes and was a duty chaplain at Westminster Abbey for ten years. She has a connection with Sénanque Abbey in southern France, and with the religious and literary traditions of the Lake District. [8]

She is co-president of the Words by the Water Literary Festival in Keswick. [12]

Selected publications

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  1. 1 2 3 Thomas-Corr, Johanna (30 November 2019). "Marie-Elsa Bragg: 'There really is no shame to suffering'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Sleeping Letters". marie-elsabragg.com. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  3. ↑ Halsall, Martin (1 September 2017). "Towards Mellbreak by Marie-Elsa Bragg". The Church Times. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  4. ↑ Stanford, Peter (4 December 2019). "Marie-Elsa Bragg – Bound in grief". The Tablet. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  5. ↑ Wilson, Fiona (8 April 2017). "Marie-Elsa Bragg: 'I'm not aware of having lost ten years of memories'". The Times. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  6. ↑ Agnew, Megan (22 July 2024). ""I still long for her": Marie‑Elsa Bragg opens up about her mother's suicide — interview". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "M. JEAN ROCHE NOUVEAU RECTEUR DE L'ACADÉMIE DE PARIS". Le Monde.fr (in French). 7 September 1961. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
  8. 1 2 "Biography". marie-elsabragg.com. Marie-Elsa Bragg. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  9. ↑ Huxley, David (15 April 2020). "Towards Mellbreak". Friends of the Lake District. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  10. ↑ Hyrkas, Teri. "Towards Mellbreak". preachthestory.com. Preach The Story. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  11. ↑ "Faith among the fells". www.churchtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
  12. ↑ "Words by the Water - A Festival of Words and Ideas at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick". Words by the Water Keswick. Retrieved 22 July 2024.


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