Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
Anglican Church
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Cultural formation | Olaudah Equiano | |
Cultural formation | Anna Maria Hall | |
Cultural formation | Flora Shaw | FS
was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's... |
Cultural formation | Frances Trollope | FT
belonged to an English professional family and was likely white; her mother came from a well-to-do Derbyshire family, and her father, the son of a Bristol saddler, was an Anglican
clergyman. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 4 |
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. Taylor, Barbara. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Virago. 70 |
Cultural formation | Frances Burney | FB
was serious about her Anglican
faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism
, which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic. Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon. 11 Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 23 |
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 | Monica Furlong | MF
was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. 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. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Helme | She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism
compared with the Anglican
church. |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism
: a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 53 |
Cultural formation | Samuel Johnson | |
Cultural formation | Jean Rhys | JR
was at one time attracted to Catholicism
, mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch. 77 |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was baptised into the Anglican
Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes
, a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 132 Walker, Dorothea. Muriel Spark. Twayne. 3 Whittaker, Ruth. The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark. Macmillan. 25 |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Underhill | |
Cultural formation | Phyllis Bentley | Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans
and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her... |
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