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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 | Jan Morris | She asserted that she had never been a believing Christian, though she was steeped in the music and architecture of Anglicanism
and the culture of Christianity in general. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016. 5 |
Cultural formation | Anna Williams | When AW
felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England
's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols. 4:187 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Oxenbridge Lady Tyrwhit | Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic
faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism
. (As the Puritan John Field
put it... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ham | She was confirmed in the Church of England
, noticing the formalistic, bureaucratic way this was carried out. Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945. 50 |
Cultural formation | Joanna Southcott | At Christmas either this year or the previous one JS
joined the Methodists
, but they rebuffed her when she began talking about the Spirit. The Church of England
also responded with hostility to her... |
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 | Iris Murdoch | One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism
: a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , 2001–2002, pp. 52-3. 53 |
Cultural formation | Fay Weldon | Brought up as an atheist, FW
belonged for most of her life to no organized religion, but admitted to believing in manifestations like ghosts haunting the scenes of terrible or painful events (terrors in a... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Trimmer | Born into the English professional class, she was a fevent Anglican
, godly from her childhood onwards. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Cultural formation | Emily Hickey | Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King
, or by John Henry Newman
, EH
converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
, which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance. qtd. in Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More, 1927. 43, 41 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 169 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Cultural formation | Penelope Aubin | Most of what was formerly believed about PA
's background has turned out to be mistaken. She was born out of wedlock to a mother in the English gentry and a father who was not... |
Cultural formation | Angela Brazil | AB
's family belonged to the British middle class, although her father's family was Irish and her mother was half-Scots, half-Spanish. As an adult she had a stronger sense of ruling-class consciousness than her father's... |
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