Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago, 1989.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH
was baptised into the Church ofEngland
. Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family... |
Cultural formation | Willa Cather | WC
was proud to be an American, whose family, Irish in origin, had been in Virginia since colonial times. Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago, 1989. 24 |
Cultural formation | Harriet Hamilton King | Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism
... |
Cultural formation | Louisa Anne Meredith | LAM
had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Freke | |
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 | Gillian Allnutt | Born into a nominally Anglican
family of the middle or professional class, GA
is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland |
Cultural formation | Ann Gomersall | AG
appears to have come from the English middle class, perhaps the urban middle class, and to have been, at least late in life, a pious and active Christian. Her works show her to be... |
Cultural formation | Caroline Bowles | She was a strong proponent of the Anglican Church
. |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutton | She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of... |
Cultural formation | Lady Anne Clifford | As a peer's daughter who had no brother, LAC
was highly privileged. She writes of her religion (Anglican
) as an important part of her education. Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997. 1, 221 Clifford, Lady Anne. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents. Editor Gilson, Julius Parnell, Roxburghe Club, 1916. 28 |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Leigh | |
Cultural formation | Mary Tighe | MT
's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist
and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland
. |
Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS
was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker
and Rousseauvian
values... |
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