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Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian
but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican
to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale
held strongly to his Unitarian background and was... |
Cultural formation | Christopher St John | At some point after CSJ
met her long-time partner Edith Craig
, she converted from her family's Anglicanism
to Roman Catholicism
. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 389 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 250 |
Cultural formation | Sophie Veitch | The Veitch family were presumably white, and belonged to the Scottish gentry, with male members holding professional positions. 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. Burke, John. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke’s Peerage. |
Cultural formation | Maggie Gee | She was confirmed in the Church ofEngland
, and still believes Jesus to be a perfect model: of kindness, empathy, lack of pride. She even occasionally takes Communion, but says that ever since she was... |
Cultural formation | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Throughout her life ECK
associated with the highest English society, at first through connections of her father and later as a result of her years of royal service to Princess Charlotte
. Her family lived... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an English gentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Mew | Charlotte Mew
was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with... |
Cultural formation | Isa Craig | Isa grew up poor and Scottish. 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. Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38. 135 Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus. 201 |
Cultural formation | Anne Finch | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | |
Cultural formation | Susanna Parr | SP
apparently grew up in the Church of England
. Then, seeking a reformation in religion, admiring the non-established churches of New England, and looking, in the heady Civil War years, towards the idea... |
Cultural formation | Maude Royden | MR
grew up in a Conservative, Anglican
family of wealthy English shipyard owners. Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, http://U of A HSS. 93 Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell. 1 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Isham | EI
took after her mother in being personally very devout as an adult, though she was nearly twenty when for the first time she aprehended or took seriously to heart a sermon as applying to... |
Cultural formation | Phyllis Bentley | Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans
and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth B. Lester |
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