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Cultural formation | Cassandra Cooke | She belonged securely to the English professional or gentry class, and to the Church of England
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Cultural formation | Zoë Fairbairns | She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture... |
Cultural formation | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
begins her autobiography with her local identity: I was Yorkshire born. My forebears, grandparents maternal and paternal, were all born in Yorkshire, in Leeds so far as I know. Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press. 7 |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | SH
had married as a RomanCatholic
, but her new husband
devoted himself with indefatigable Pains Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 38 , pp. 165-72. 170 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | She was deeply influenced by her father, an Irish Nationalist politician from the gentry class, who taught her to be proud of her Irish descent. She was a Protestant
for the first four decades of... |
Cultural formation | Radagunda Roberts | She seems to have been of Welsh extraction, and was presumably white. Her brothers had solid professional careers; she presumably belonged, like others of her family, to the Church of England
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Cultural formation | Agnes Strickland | Her securely middle-class family had aspirations to rise higher in the social scale, but their financial status steadily declined. They were High Anglicans
. Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus. 21 |
Cultural formation | Queen Victoria | QV
was a devout Anglican
, as befitted the head of the Church of England
. (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian
, that is Church of Scotland
, parish church.) |
Cultural formation | Jane Barker | Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England
(into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism
, to which as an... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Dacre | |
Cultural formation | Ann Gomersall | AG
appears to have come from the English middle class, perhaps the urban middle class, and to have been, at least late in life, a pious and active Christian. Her works show her to be... |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutton | She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of... |
Cultural formation | Caroline Leakey | CL
was a member of a pious middle-class evangelical Anglican
family who were presumably white and of English descent. She herself was a devoted Christian who participated in evangelical and missionary endeavours. Walker, Shirley. “’Wild and Wilful’ Women: Caroline Leakey and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Broad Arrow</span>”;. A Bright and Fiery Troop, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin Books Australia, pp. 85-99. 85 Pike, Douglas, editor. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. 5 |
Cultural formation | John Strange Winter | She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine
), Castlemaine had... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Thomas | She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican
in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she... |
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