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under Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins
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Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | While working for the Daily HeraldGHS
developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard
, who was one influence towards her conversion to... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | She belonged to the English professional class, and was presumably white and a member of the Church of England
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins |
Cultural formation | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She came from an English, presumably white, middle-class, Anglican
family. As an adult she became an agnostic, and also entertained an interest in spiritualism. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Cultural formation | Susannah Gunning | SG
came from the English, presumably white, gentry or professional class, and married into an Irish gentry family which was just securing ties, through socially upward marriage, with the nobility. She belonged to the Church of England |
Cultural formation | Eliza Lynn Linton | Growing up Anglican
, she was intensely or excessively religious as an adolescent. Her beliefs began to alter when her reading led her to perceive a parallel between the stories of the Bible and those... |
Cultural formation | Martha Moulsworth | MM
lays proud stress on her gentle birth. She is equally positive, however, in her sentiments about the marriages which allied her with a different rank, that of the mercantile bourgeoisie of London. She was... |
Cultural formation | Isabella Bird | IB
came from an English, professional, upper-middle-class family background, strongly religious in the Evangelical wing of the Church ofEngland
. She grew up in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment. Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press. 3-6 Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray. 1 Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research. 166:30 |
Cultural formation | Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny | She evidently sprang from the English gentry class within which she also married. Yet her origins and connections are obscure, whereas her husband's family (French Huguenots in origin) was conspicuously well-connected. She was presumably white.... |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic
. He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his... |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | MP
was baptised a Christian by an Anglican
clergyman, James Curtin
; though empowered to baptise her in the name of the Trinity, he would not let her attend his Sunday school without her owner's permission. Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora. 73-4 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | EPS
belonged to the English gentry class, though her father was of Welsh descent. Though she never thought of herself as assuming Canadian nationality, her writings have given her the status of an honorary Canadian... |
Cultural formation | Joanna Trollope | JT
grew up as a member of the English professional class and of the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Frances Ridley Havergal | FRH
was confirmed in the Anglican Church
; her particular views were Evangelical. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Cultural formation | Jane Johnson | Leaving Olney as a widow, JJ
wrote with an evident sense of moral righteousness of her conservative resistance to AnglicanEvangelicalism
. I made a strong proof of my Courage, made a Bold Stand against... |
Cultural formation | Judith Cowper Madan | JCM
was confirmed in the Church of England
by Thomas Secker
, probably at St James's, Piccadilly, having apparently not received this sacrament as a child. Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press. 82 |
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