Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Pamela Frankau
The Times obituary of PF describes her as coming from a gifted Jewish family
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(9 June 1967): 12
on her father's side, but it was not an observant family. G. B. Stern refers to PF
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.
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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 Pandita Ramabai
While living with the Anglican sisterhood at Wantage inBerkshire, PR was baptised into the Church ofEngland by William Butler , together with her daughter, Manorama. She took the name Mary Rama.
Blumhofer, Edith L. “From India’s Coral Strand: Pandita Ramabai and U. S. Support for Foreign Missions”. The Foreign Mission Enterprise at Home, edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker, University of Alamaba Press, 2003, pp. 152-70.
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Adhav, Shamsundar Manohar. Pandita Ramabai. Christian Literature Society, 1979.
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Maiorani, Arianna. “Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922)”. Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present, edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp, Continuum, 2005, pp. 113-25.
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Cultural formation Augusta Gregory
AG 's parents were Irish Protestant land-owners whose estate, encompassing thousands of acres, was originally acquired in the seventeenth century. Her forebears were a mix of Irish and English, Catholic and Protestant. Her maternal grandmother...
Cultural formation Alethea Lewis
AL was a middle-class Englishwoman (with relatives in trade and the professions, and forebears in the nobility) who admired the political liberties of the new American colonies. She was an Anglican , but unusually relaxed...
Cultural formation Fleur Adcock
This Anglican , of a kind
Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 1983.
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(still a church-goer) salutes the Presbyterian ancestors whose graves she failed to find, attends a service in a Belfast Free Church, but finds that the anti-popery sermon makes...
Cultural formation Lucy Aikin
LA was a middle-classEnglishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was her...
Cultural formation Agatha Christie
AC was an upper-middle-class Englishwoman whose father was American. She was a practising Anglican , although after her divorce she no longer took Communion.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, 1984, http://Rutherford HSS.
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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 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...
Cultural formation Ruth Pitter
RP was baptised an Anglican as a baby by parents who had trained at Church of England colleges but were not churchgoers.
Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40.
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Brought up between her father's scepticism and her mother's eclecticism in matters...
Cultural formation Mary Harcourt
Born into the upper ranks of the English gentry and into the Church of England , presumably white, she entered into metropolitan court society with her first marriage and reached the fringes of the nobility...
Cultural formation Sophia Jex-Blake
Both of SJB 's parents descended from well-established Norfolk families, presumably white, and belonged to the Anglican Church . Sophia and her siblings were denied many social indulgences in favour of the work expected of...

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