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Cultural formation | Stella Gibbons | After several years of struggling with her religious beliefs, SG
was baptised into the Church of England
. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 196 |
Cultural formation | Philip Larkin | |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Sleath | ES
belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church
, though gothicists Michael Sadleir
and Devendra P. Varma
, who had different theories... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Barnard | CB
grew up as an English upper-class child, attending the local Anglican Church
. Her family had many servants, including a coachman, a housekeeper, two housemaids, a nurse and a cook. They also owned several... |
Cultural formation | Emily Davies | The household was quite evangelical
, owing to the influence of Emily's father, but she herself leaned in adulthood towards the Christian socialism of F. D. Maurice
. Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press. 67-8 Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 19, 21, 27 |
Cultural formation | Martha Fowke | MF
came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic
heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Annabella Plumptre | AP
was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and her sister Anne
, she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism
. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, p. vii - xxix. viii and n4 |
Cultural formation | Mary Sewell | Both of MS
's parents were members of the Society of Friends
, as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England
after flirting... |
Cultural formation | Fay Weldon | Brought up as an atheist, FW
belonged for most of her life to no organized religion, but admitted to believing in manifestations like ghosts haunting the scenes of terrible or painful events (terrors in a... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Griffith | EG
came from the professional class, and from the special milieu of the theatre. She regarded herself as Irish, but lived much of her adult life in England and was of Welsh and English extraction... |
Cultural formation | Penelope Mortimer | Welsh by birth (although she lived her adult life in England and the USA), she was, as a clergyman's daughter, brought up in the Church of England
. Her father's Communist affiliation seems not to... |
Cultural formation | Isabella Bird | To dedicate herself to her medical missionary work, she had herself baptized in a ceremony of total immersion. She did not, however, leave the AnglicanChurch
for the Baptist church. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Marianne Chambers | |
Cultural formation | Susan Smythies | SS
was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland
. “Genealogical Notes to the Pedigree of the Smythies Family”. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol. 4: 4 , pp. 276 - 86, 306. 315,317 |
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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