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.
Anglican Church
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters. Though Anna Seward
said they were Anglicans |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | Her upbringing in a professional, Tory, English family was surprisingly unconventional: she was encouraged to roam freely with her brother, to read widely . . . and forbidden to wear restrictive clothing. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Freke | |
Cultural formation | Susanna Watts | Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland
, SW
was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters
. Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott. 39 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Green | SG
seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican
, yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers
, millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite |
Cultural formation | Naomi Jacob | NJ
was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost... |
Cultural formation | Jan Morris | She asserted that she had never been a believing Christian, though she was steeped in the music and architecture of Anglicanism
and the culture of Christianity in general. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber. 5 |
Cultural formation | Enid Blyton | She was brought up a Baptist
(baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to... |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | The Methodist Church
had broken away from the Church of England
in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Charles | She was born into a supportive, professional English family. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray. 6, passim |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | She also became increasingly preoccupied with the Evangelical movement within the Church ofEngland
. Her continuing interest in UpperCanada included funding Anglican missionary work there and paying for the English university education of several promising... |
Cultural formation | Catharine Trotter | While a young woman CT
converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism
, the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian
religion were of no importance... |
Cultural formation | Nina Hamnett | Born into the English professional class, NH
lost no time in becoming cosmopolitan and déclassée. She was brought up to believe that women were worth less than men, though she later discovered that female gender... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth White | Nothing is known of her family except that they were Anglicans
. They probably belonged somewhere in the English middling classes. |
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