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Cultural formation | Radagunda Roberts | She seems to have been of Welsh extraction, and was presumably white. Her brothers had solid professional careers; she presumably belonged, like others of her family, to the Church of England
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Cultural formation | Charlotte Dacre | |
Cultural formation | Agnes Strickland | Her securely middle-class family had aspirations to rise higher in the social scale, but their financial status steadily declined. They were High Anglicans
. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 21 |
Cultural formation | Queen Victoria | QV
was a devout Anglican
, as befitted the head of the Church of England
. (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian
, that is Church of Scotland
, parish church.) |
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 | |
Cultural formation | L. S. Bevington | She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker
roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The... |
Cultural formation | Lady Jane Cavendish | LJC
was born to privilege and her father's career took her into the highest ranks of English society. He professed himself a devout member of the Church of England (into which his children followed him)... |
Cultural formation | Benjamin Disraeli | In his political career and the high office which he attained, BD
did something unprecedented in England for someone of his Jewish ethnicity. By the early twenty-first century he remained Britain's only Jewish Prime Minister... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Thomas | She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican
in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she... |
Cultural formation | Constantia Grierson | Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol. 2 , pp. 33-56. 36 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Grierson |
Cultural formation | Alethea Lewis | |
Cultural formation | Caroline Bowles | She was a strong proponent of the Anglican Church
. |
Cultural formation | Lady Anne Clifford | As a peer's daughter who had no brother, LAC
was highly privileged. She writes of her religion (Anglican
) as an important part of her education. Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing. 1, 221 Clifford, Lady Anne. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents. Editor Gilson, Julius Parnell, Roxburghe Club. 28 |
Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were connected to the Unitarian
tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood
as well as to the largely Anglican
evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect
centred close to their home in South London... |
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