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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | In The Fatal Three the mostly loveless childhood of Mildred, the daughter of a frivolous society woman, is brightened only by the brief sojourn in her household of a woman presumed to be her illegitimate... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland
member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic
, Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon
, was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was... |
Cultural formation | Anna Eliza Bray | |
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... |
Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | AB
sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian
(in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Vera Brittain | The words of the title are used to describe marriage in the Church of England
's Book of Common Prayer. In her foreword to the novel, VB
explained that Honourable Estate purports to show... |
Cultural formation | Anne Brontë | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Brontë | |
Cultural formation | Emily Brontë | Of Irish and English descent, Emily was raised in the Church of England
as the daughter of a clergyman. Almost nothing is known directly of her personality and opinions; one biographer characterizes her as secretive... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Brooke | Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans
(following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism
or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were... |
Literary responses | Emma Frances Brooke | W. T. Stead
's rapid and strong disaproval of the novel on grounds of immorality in the Pall Mall Gazette spelled instant notoriety. Despite EFB
's moral purpose, Stead declared: its whole significance lies in... |
Cultural formation | Frances Brooke | |
Cultural formation | Christine Brooke-Rose | |
Cultural formation | Brigid Brophy |
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