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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Eliza Dunlop | She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican
church. Though she spent most of her adult... |
| Cultural formation | Mary Tighe | MT
's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist
and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland
. |
| Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS
was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker
and Rousseauvian
values... |
| Cultural formation | Ruth Pitter | RP
was baptised an Anglican as a baby by parents who had trained at Church of England colleges but were not churchgoers. Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40. 29 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Harcourt | Born into the upper ranks of the English gentry and into the Church of England
, presumably white, she entered into metropolitan court society with her first marriage and reached the fringes of the nobility... |
| Cultural formation | Sophia Jex-Blake | Both of SJB
's parents descended from well-established Norfolk families, presumably white, and belonged to the Anglican Church
. Sophia and her siblings were denied many social indulgences in favour of the work expected of... |
| Cultural formation | Rose Macaulay | Her brother's death impelled her to search in Anglican
ritual, liturgy, and sacraments for a faith to sustain her. |
| Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | The ex-Anglican
leader and Tractarian JHN
completed his conversion by being received into the Roman Catholic
Church. Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988. 316 |
| 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 | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater | Lady Elizabeth Cavendish's birth family was not remarkable for its piety, but she may have been an exception among them. As an unmarried girl she wrote her name in a copy of St Peter's Complaint... |
| Cultural formation | William Congreve | He was born into the northern English minor country gentry, but he grew up (as an Anglican
) in Ireland, spending his childhood and youth there. |
| Cultural formation | Katharine Evans | KE
grew up an Anglican
, but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists
, then the Independents
, before becoming one of the Society of Friends
very soon after its inception... |
| Cultural formation | Joan Vokins | Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican
. In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves. qtd. in Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989. 216 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Strutt | |
| Cultural formation | Maude Royden | Her religious upbringing provided some exposure to Catholicism, which attracted her. By her mid-twenties she found herself in much perplexity about my religion . . . and I could not find rest for my soul... |
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