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Cultural formation | Mary Anne Barker | Brought up in the Church of England
, she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died, Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009. 86-7 |
Cultural formation | Josephine Butler | |
Cultural formation | Mary Whateley Darwall | MWD
came from the rural middle class, from middle England and the established church
. Her father not only owned his land but even considered himself a gentleman (though neither his income nor, probably, his... |
Cultural formation | Jane Gardam | Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican
variety). JG
gave up her church-going when she was free to do... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Walker | EW
was born into the rising English urban middle class, but her husband, who spent much time among the upper classes, later wrote that both he and she were obscure Persons of low Degree. Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694. prelims |
Cultural formation | Annie S. Swan | Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which... |
Cultural formation | Coventry Patmore | After the death of his first wife
, CP
converted from Anglicanism
to Roman Catholicism
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Holford | Her parents belonged securely to the minor English gentry; her husband followed a profession as a clergyman of the Church of England
, to which she presumably belonged. |
Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | FN
experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican
Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | Annie Keary | Her mother and father were respectively northern English and Irish ascendency. Both came from the gentry class and seem to have been white. Brought up in the Church of England
, AK
was a deeply... |
Cultural formation | Damaris Masham | She was an Anglican
: questioning on issues of religion, but a firm believer. Historian Karen O'Brien
places her as a late Latudinarian, belonging to a group within the Church of England which was... |
Cultural formation | Mary Frances Billington | English by birth and presumably white, she was raised in the Church of England
, a religious upbringing that reflected her father's and grandfather's occupations as Church of England clergymen. Tuson, Penelope. The Queen’s Daughters: An Anthology of Victorian Feminist Writings on India, 1857-1900. Ithaca Press, 1995, http://University of Waterloo - Porter. 295 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Cavendish | She has sometimes been said to be a Catholic (perhaps because her husband's family had long had leanings that way); but she was an Anglican
who explained in her Philosophical Letters that she followed the... |
Cultural formation | James Anthony Froude | He gradually lost faith in High Church
tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle
. JAF
was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and... |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was baptised into the Anglican
Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes
, a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 132 Walker, Dorothea. Muriel Spark. Twayne, 1988. 3 Whittaker, Ruth. The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark. Macmillan, 1982. 25 |
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