Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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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. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Warren | EW
was apparently a conservative, Puritan
Englishwoman of the gentry or professional class. She belonged to the Church ofEngland
; she attacks both sectaries and Catholics. In politics she was a monarchist. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Warren | EW
sets out here is to defend Anglican
clergymen of Presbyterian
sympathies, who were currently under attack from more more extreme reformers, and in general to defend the need for a highly educated body of... |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
converted from the Society of Friends
to Anglicanism
(with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 6 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research. 240: 306 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold
(father of the future MAW
) abandoned Roman Catholicism
and returned to the Church of England
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Sutherland, John. Mrs. Humphry Ward. Clarendon Press. 24 |
Cultural formation | Mary Augusta Ward | She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland. |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Augusta Ward | She described it as a vision of a Church of England
recreated from within, with a rebel, and not—as in Robert Elsmere—an exile, for a hero. Ward, Mary Augusta. A Writer’s Recollections. Harper and Brothers. 352 |
Occupation | Doreen Wallace | After marriage and especially as help became more difficult to get, DW
cooked, sewed, and sometimes picked fruit for sale. She partnered her husband at farming at their several Suffolk farms and was an indefatigable... |
politics | Doreen Wallace | DW
first became acurely aware of the burden of tithe-paying on farmers shortly after the birth of her first child. She felt the injustice of this tax, levied on the land but not on other... |
politics | Doreen Wallace | DW
went on to join a London rally in June 1936 against the bill which became the Tithe Act (which arranged for the tithe income of the Church of England
to be otherwise supplied, and... |
politics | Doreen Wallace | DW
's anti-tithing campaign put her in the tradition of seventeenth-century writers like Mary Cary
, Margaret Fell
, and innumerable others; but whereas they condemned the Church of England
for doctrinal reasons and in... |
Textual Production | Doreen Wallace | She dated her prefatory material February 1934. Wallace, Doreen. The Tithe War. Victor Gollancz. 3-8 |
Textual Features | Doreen Wallace | DW
writes as from the field of battle, reporting developments which are still ongoing. She exhibits shrewd and informed understanding of farm economics and church economics. She convincingly depicts both the law and the Church... |
Literary responses | Doreen Wallace | But the memory of her political (anti-tithing) activity has not always been favourable. In 1997 Adrian Brink
(head of one of her publishers, the Lutterworth Press
) wrote that abolishing tithes had to some extent... |
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