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Cultural formation | Emilie Barrington | |
Cultural formation | Susanna Moodie | |
Cultural formation | Mary Butts | During her second marriage MB
took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic
. Naomi Royde-Smith
(herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts... |
Cultural formation | Emily Davies | |
Cultural formation | Anne Francis | |
Cultural formation | Dorothy L. Sayers | James Brabazon
, her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 275 |
Cultural formation | Annie Tinsley | AT
's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner. 4 |
Cultural formation | Jane Warton | JW
was born into the English middle class and the established
Church. The careers of her male relatives suggest the upper middle class, while her own employment suggests the lower middle class. |
Cultural formation | Martha Hale | She belonged to the English gentry class and to the Church of England |
Cultural formation | Penelope Lively | |
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 | C. E. Plumptre | Little is known about her background. Her family, however, was old-established, presumably white, certainly English, Anglican
, and upper-middle-class. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. 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. |
Cultural formation | Percy Bysshe Shelley | He was born into a family of the English country gentry, Foxite Whigs but without Percy's radical fire. They were conventionally practising Anglican
s and were outraged at his early espousal of atheism. |
Cultural formation | Frances Trollope | FT
's opinion that church services should not be sensational foreshadows her famously strong reaction to what she perceived as the uncouth manners of Americans. One of her biographers writes that she was always specially... |
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