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Cultural formation | Pandita Ramabai | Once she was established in England, with the Anglican sisterhood
at Wantage in Berkshire, PR
's doubts about Hinduism grew, and after her companion Bhagat committed suicide she converted to join the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Stevie Smith | |
Cultural formation | Susan Tweedsmuir | Her immediate, nuclear family was an enclave of agnosticism while her extended family was unanimously Anglican
—though not uniformly, since it was sharply divided between High and Low Church. Her memoirs emphasise the moral strength... |
Cultural formation | Jane Austen | |
Cultural formation | Anne Brontë | |
Cultural formation | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Her parents were members of the English professional class, and were devout Anglicans
. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Gatty | She was born into an English, presumably white, strongly Anglican
family of the professional class. Male members of her family on both sides had risen in their professions through sheer ability, and there was a... |
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 | Fanny Kingsley | FK
was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms
describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Melvill | EM
was an upper-class Scotswoman who was born into the Church of Scotland
and remained a fervent and radical member of it. She is presumed to have undergone a conversion experience within this church, and... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
converted to Catholicism
from the Church of Ireland
. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Michèle Roberts | She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR
implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing. 163 |
Cultural formation | Queen Victoria | Princess Alexandrina Victoria
was confirmed an Anglican
at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 47 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bury | Brought up in the Church of England
, she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter
. She remembered that she was... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Dacre |
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