Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Penelope Aubin | PA
celebrates recent military victories, and praises Anne
for completing Queen Elizabeth
's work in assuring the strength of the Church of England
. She provides lavish panegyric for every Stuart monarch, as her ravish'd... |
Cultural formation | Penelope Aubin | Most of what was formerly believed about PA
's background has turned out to be mistaken. She was born out of wedlock to a mother in the English gentry and a father who was not... |
Cultural formation | W. H. Auden | Born English, to what he later described book-loving, Anglo-Catholic
parents of the professional class, Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press. 3 |
Cultural formation | W. H. Auden | Around the same time he took up again the Anglicanism of his childhood, this time in the form of the USEpiscopalian
church. In this he was influenced at the time by such socially-conscious Christian... |
Cultural formation | Anne Audland | Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican
church. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Jane Austen | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Avery | Born into the English middling ranks, she followed her father in having a turbulent history of denominational allegiance. He went from Anglicanism to heterodox views and millenarianism. She went from membership of the Established Church |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Avery | Avery writes with great authority, from her opening salvo: Antichrist the spirit of Errour doth reside in the flesh more than ever. Avery, Elizabeth. Scripture-Prophecies Opened. Giles Calvert. 1 |
Textual Production | Anne Bacon | Matthew Parker
, Archbishop of Canterbury, published at her own request AB
's An Apologie in Defence of the Churche of Englande, translated from the Latin church settlement written by John Jewel
, Bishop... |
Cultural formation | Enid Bagnold | EB
was confirmed in the Church ofEngland
in March 1905, but she hated churchgoing (which her father dubbed Satan-chasing) and leaned toward atheism. As a young woman, she moved in artistic circles in London. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 20-1 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Mary Bailey | MB
published at Ballingdon in Suffolk a devotional work, Reflections upon the Litany of the Church of England. Neither this work nor her next two publications are listed by OCLC. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Cultural formation | Joanna Baillie | JB
was a Scottish writer: though she lived most of her adult life in London, her letters show her vividly aware of her Scots identity, not least in her deliberate use of the Scotticisms which... |
Cultural formation | Louisa Baldwin | The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society. Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler. 20 Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 7-8 |
Cultural formation | Clara Balfour | Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England
, she later converted and joined the Baptists
with the rest of her family in 1840. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anna Letitia Barbauld | France and Britain had been at war since the first of February, and the fast was held for the sake of the war. Church of England
bishops composed a form of prayer for the occasion... |
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