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Cultural formation | Maria Susanna Cooper | |
Cultural formation | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | She belonged to the English royalist gentry class. An Anglican
, she resisted pressure in difficult circumstances to convert to Catholicism. |
Cultural formation | E. J. Scovell | Born into the English middle classes, EJS
was brought up an Anglican
but after an interim period as a pantheist settled down as an an agnostic. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | She was brought up in a wealthy, English, middle-class, evangelical Church of England
household where prayer was read twice daily. By early adulthood she rejected the teachings of the Church, but she kept her views... |
Cultural formation | Constance Holme | CH
's parents came from long-established gentry families in their area and were said to have been regarded with deep respect by local people—a respect which they would have claimed as their due. She was... |
Cultural formation | Molly Keane | Her family belonged to the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. MK
called them a rather serious hunting and fishing, church-going
family. Breen, Mary. “Piggies and Spoilers of Girls: The Representation of Sexuality in the Novels of Molly Keane”. Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing, St Martin’s Press, pp. 202-20. 202 |
Cultural formation | Mary Martin | She grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic
family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant |
Cultural formation | Felicia Skene | The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland
; FS
's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Josephine Butler | JB
was, however, always careful to distinguish her spiritual beliefs from any particular religious institutions. In a letter of 1883 she acknowledged that I go to the Church once a Sunday out of a feeling... |
Cultural formation | Jessie Fothergill | JF
's father, a former Quaker
, was cast out by the Society of Friends
when he married an Anglican
wife. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Scholar Helen Debenham
notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell
, who is writing a... |
Cultural formation | Barbara Pym | BP
was brought up in the Church of England
, and her family was active in their parish. Allen, Orphia Jane. Barbara Pym: Writing a Life. Scarecrow Press. 1-2 |
Cultural formation | May Sinclair | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Maria Tucker | |
Cultural formation | Stella Gibbons | After several years of struggling with her religious beliefs, SG
was baptised into the Church of England
. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 196 |
Cultural formation | Philip Larkin |
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