Date: 2010-10-28 11:28 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nineveh_uk
It's about a woman rather than a boy, but if you can get hold of a biography of Dorothy L Sayers there's some interesting stuff about her confirmation. Not of least relevance is that she didn't get confirmed when she chose, but when it was chosen for her by her parents and school. Your character would almost certainly get confirmed whenever his school had the boys "done". So biographies of contemporary men might be of relevance (C.S. Lewis must surely have been confirmed as a teenager, and would probably write about it).

(The Sayers story is fascinating, not least in that though a woman of strong religious faith all her life, she hated the experience of confirmation at school, and bitterly resented it as something "done to her". Ironically, I can imagine a boy without strong faith finding it easier, because he'd just go along with it as a social thing.)
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