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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Martha Fowke | MF
came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic
heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican
. |
| Cultural formation | Dorothy Whipple | |
| Cultural formation | Frances Trollope | FT
's opinion that church services should not be sensational foreshadows her famously strong reaction to what she perceived as the uncouth manners of Americans. One of her biographers writes that she was always specially... |
| Cultural formation | Catherine Sinclair | CS
's family were Episcopalians
, not members of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. She herself was a fervent Protestant and her evangelical bent can be felt in her books for children. Mitchison, Rosalind. Agricultural Sir John: The Life of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1754-1835. Geoffrey Bles, 1962. 236 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Renault | |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Isham | EI
took after her mother in being personally very devout as an adult, though she was nearly twenty when for the first time she aprehended or took seriously to heart a sermon as applying to... |
| Cultural formation | Denise Levertov | Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England
, where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and... |
| Cultural formation | Lady Ottoline Morrell | At an Anglican
convent in Cornwall run by the Little Sisters of the Poor
, Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later Morrell)
met Mother Julian
, one of her early mentors. Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. 32 |
| Cultural formation | Maria Abdy | As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican
church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters
. |
| Cultural formation | John Dryden | |
| Cultural formation | Mary Rich Countess of Warwick | She grew up as a merely nominal Anglican
without any inward and spiritual faith. qtd. in Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987. 80 Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694. 8 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Tipper | |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Sewell | |
| Cultural formation | Annabella Plumptre | AP
was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and her sister Anne
, she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism
. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix. viii and n4 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hamilton | She grew up Anglican
like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian
, so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her... |
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