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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Buchi Emecheta | |
| Cultural formation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | ACS
came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham
and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy
). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne
, owned an... |
| Cultural formation | Sarah Pearson | She belonged to the (presumably white) English, Anglican
, middling ranks. The idea that she was a servant and a Baptist has arisen from confusion with Susanna (Flinders) Pearson. Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002. 412 |
| Cultural formation | Emily Hickey | Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland
, she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 167 Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969. 17, 18 |
| Cultural formation | Sheila Kaye-Smith | SKS
became an Anglo-Catholic, and made her first confession (a practice followed only in the higher congregations within the Church of England
). Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980. 86 |
| Cultural formation | Emma Marshall | She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker
, who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the... |
| Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
| Cultural formation | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England
. |
| Cultural formation | Ellen Wood | Ellen Price
was a middle-class Englishwoman from a prominent business family, presumably white, and was brought up an Anglican
; her father had a particular interest in questions of church doctrine. Her early years were... |
| Cultural formation | Rachel Speght | |
| Cultural formation | Maggie Gee | She was confirmed in the Church ofEngland
, and still believes Jesus to be a perfect model: of kindness, empathy, lack of pride. She even occasionally takes Communion, but says that ever since she was... |
| Cultural formation | Fanny Aikin Kortright | Although she was baptised in the Church of England
(at three years old, in a naval dockyard chapel), she says that throughout her life she was happy to worship in any Christian church, no matter... |
| Cultural formation | Grace Lady Mildmay | Born into the English gentry class, Grace Sharington was brought up by her mother in the new Protestant, Anglican
religion, in habits of daily prayer and meditation. She believed that salvation would come not through... |
| Cultural formation | Ada Cambridge | AC
worshipped in the AnglicanChurch
both as a child and adult, and her early novellas, hymns, and poems emphasize her strong religious faith. Bradstock, Margaret, and Louise Wakeling. Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. Penguin, 1991. 5 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
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