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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 | Annie Keary | Having found she could live with Broad Church
theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists... |
Cultural formation | Mary Masters | |
Cultural formation | John Strange Winter | She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine
), Castlemaine had... |
Cultural formation | Michèle Roberts | She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR
implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing, 1989. 163 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Elstob | She was a middle-class, English, presumably white, High Tory Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Constance Naden | She was baptised into the Church of England
but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist
chapels. CN
later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of... |
Cultural formation | Phebe Gibbes | She seems to have belonged to the middle or lower gentry class and to the Church of England
, Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk. |
Cultural formation | Catherine Hubback | |
Cultural formation | Anna Margaretta Larpent | AML
was born in the English gentry or professional class, with close connections to Hungarian nobility. In religion she was a pious, serious-minded Anglican
. Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998. 379 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Minifie | The Minifies had bought Fairwater House (now rebuilt and forming part of Taunton School
) in the early eighteenth century. They belonged to the Church of England
and to the gentry or professional class. Margaret... |
Cultural formation | Anna Wheeler | The daughter of a radical Anglican
, AW
was herself a materialist and thus also an atheist. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Taylor, Barbara, b. 1950. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Virago, 1984. 70 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | EPS
belonged to the English gentry class, though her father was of Welsh descent. Though she never thought of herself as assuming Canadian nationality, her writings have given her the status of an honorary Canadian... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Browne | She grew up adhering to a private religion of her own, a Romantic religion of the imagination. In 1832, however, a kind of conversion experience made her a conventional Christian, an Anglican
like the rest... |
Cultural formation | Louisa Stuart Costello | Her family were professional people of Irish extraction. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
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