Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, pp. 1-17.
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Cultural formation | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAB was baptised into the Church of England
. Her religious belief was broad-minded, liberal, tolerant. Faced with the Evangelical tendencies of the family of her future husband, who disapproved of many of her Sunday... |
Cultural formation | Edith J. Simcox | She was christened on 11 September 1844 at Christchurch Greyfriars in London. Her family belonged to the English middle class and was presumably white. After an Anglican
upbringing, she moved away from conventional religious... |
Cultural formation | Ann Jebb | |
Cultural formation | Anne Whitehead | She was baptised an Anglican
, and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends
. Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around... |
Cultural formation | Edna Lyall | Her family had been Roman Catholic
back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England. Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 3 |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | IM
was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland
, had come down in the... |
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... |
Cultural formation | Mary Maria Colling | Baptised a Congregationalist
, that is in contemporary terms a Dissenter
, MMC
later became a practising Anglican
. She was deeply religious. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85. 17 An Independent church in England is normally Congregational, though the Wesleyan Independent sect also existed. Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. J. M. Dent. |
Cultural formation | E. Nesbit | |
Cultural formation | Ephelia | If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I
her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced... |
Cultural formation | Anna Williams | When AW
felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England
's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press. 4:187 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Richardson | |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | The Church ofEngland
was still resolved against ordaining women when in 1986 a vote was passed forbidding invitations to visiting, foreign women priests to celebrate Holy Communion. MF
and her associates responded by founding the... |
Cultural formation | Emily Hickey | Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland
, she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 167 Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press. 17, 18 |
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