Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton, 1937.
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bentley | She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans
. |
Cultural formation | Ethel M. Dell | EMD
was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant
and her father a Catholic
who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD
adopted... |
Cultural formation | Anne Francis | |
Cultural formation | Elinor Glyn | Before the age of six, EG
had renounced orthodox Christianity
; her grandmother had enlisted a clergyman to teach Elinor and her sister the catechism, but both girls rebelled against Christian dogma. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton, 1937. 14-15 Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch, 1994. 17 |
Cultural formation | Jane Lead | Pordage was an Anglican
clergyman; but he and his wife were radicals. He was said to be much against property, and against relations of magistrates, subjects, husbands, wives, masters, servants, etc. He was one of... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Moodie | |
Cultural formation | Anna Wheeler | The daughter of a radical Anglican
, AW
was herself a materialist and thus also an atheist. 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. Taylor, Barbara, b. 1950. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Virago, 1984. 70 |
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 | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
belonged to the English upper class, and to a network of relations who held or strove for power in the state. Judging by the known political allegiance of her eldest brother, she would have... |
Cultural formation | Phyllis Bottome | PB
was confirmed into the Anglican Church
while attending St John the Baptist School
in New York City. Bottome, Phyllis. Search for a Soul. Reynal and Hitchcock, 1948. 210-14, 216 |
Cultural formation | Georgiana Chatterton | Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England
clergyman, GC
came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878. 7-19 |
Cultural formation | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
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, 1987. 73-4 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Guest | CG
remained a member of the Church of England
(with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters
were doing a better... |
Cultural formation | Penelope Lively |
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