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Cultural formation | Agatha Christie | |
Cultural formation | Eliza Dunlop | She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican
church. Though she spent most of her adult... |
Cultural formation | Jane Williams | Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist
ancestors... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Roberts | She grew up as a member of the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Julia Stretton | She was born into the English middle class, and became a sincere and earnest Anglican
. She grew up in an industrial, working-class area, in which her family was clearly marked out as superior to... |
Cultural formation | W. H. Auden | Around the same time he took up again the Anglicanism of his childhood, this time in the form of the USEpiscopalian
church. In this he was influenced at the time by such socially-conscious Christian... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Holford | Her parents belonged securely to the minor English gentry; her husband followed a profession as a clergyman of the Church of England
, to which she presumably belonged. |
Cultural formation | Anne Audland | Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican
church. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Sheila Kaye-Smith | From childhood SKS
was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans
(though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian
). Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 18 |
Cultural formation | Ngaio Marsh | Though her father was a truculent rationalist and her mother was elusive and vague about her religious beliefs, NM
as a schoolgirl was roused to a fervour of devotion by the aesthetic, expressive rituals and... |
Cultural formation | Anne Conway | |
Cultural formation | Margiad Evans | ME
wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her... |
Cultural formation | Walter Pater | |
Cultural formation | Ann Thicknesse | She was a proudly middle-class Englishwoman, whose contact with the upper classes and subsequent travel abroad only reinforced her conviction of the superiority of her own rank and nationality. She was apparently a member of... |
Cultural formation | Emily Gerard | She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church
, which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism
, EG
and... |
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