Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Sarah Savage | SS
was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity
in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in 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 | Winifred Peck | |
Cultural formation | Frances Seymour Countess of Hertford | Born into the English peerage, Frances married into its topmost ranks. She was a devout Anglican
all her life, brought up in the Non-juring tradition but latterly embracing an earnest and consistent Evangelicism. She took... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Justice | EJ
was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England
(with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox
and of the Roman Catholic Churches
)... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Marsh | She belonged to the English upper or upper-middle class, and by religion to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England
. She never married or had her own children, though she adopted and cared... |
Cultural formation | Anna Jane Vardill | She belonged to the English professional class (though her father had been an American colonist before the Revolution) and the Anglican Church
. She was presumably white. |
Cultural formation | Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist
mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection
, and an Irish, originally Catholic
, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish... |
Cultural formation | Mary Stewart | MS
was born to an Englishman and a New Zealander, into the middle class and the Church of England
. Her family moved when she was a baby from Sunderland, where her father was... |
Cultural formation | Christina Rossetti | She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch
, she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura... |
Cultural formation | Frances Bellerby | She was brought up in the Anglican
church, but very definitely as one of the Anglo-Catholic minority. After her brother's death she turned against religion. |
Cultural formation | Ada Cambridge | Critics Margaret Bradstock
and Louise Wakeling
write that AC
's faith was strongly challenged by the deaths of her first two children: this was probably . . . the beginning of her questioning of Divine... |
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
. |
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