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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | E. M. Delafield | |
| 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 | Sarah Green | SG
seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican
, yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers
, millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite |
| Cultural formation | Naomi Jacob | NJ
was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost... |
| Cultural formation | Amy Levy | AL
was an upper-middle-class Jew from a family which had been English for over a century, though they travelled the world for career purposes more freely than most English people. Many reference books still repeat... |
| Cultural formation | William Morris | He came from a white, English, and Anglican
family. His father was a successful financier who brought the family up in great comfort at their Essex mansion. The patriarch's death in 1847 left the Morris... |
| Cultural formation | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
belonged to the English upper class, and to a network of relations who held or strove for power in the state. Judging by the known political allegiance of her eldest brother, she would have... |
| Cultural formation | Phyllis Bottome | PB
was confirmed into the Anglican Church
while attending St John the Baptist School
in New York City. Bottome, Phyllis. Search for a Soul. Reynal and Hitchcock, 1948. 210-14, 216 |
| Cultural formation | Georgiana Chatterton | Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England
clergyman, GC
came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 7-19 |
| Cultural formation | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
| Cultural formation | Jane Warton | JW
was born into the English middle class and the established
Church. The careers of her male relatives suggest the upper middle class, while her own employment suggests the lower middle class. |
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