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Cultural formation | Emilie Barrington | |
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 | Agnes Giberne | AG
, a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England
, in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by... |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | SH
, religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism
and joined the Society of Friends
. 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 | Anna Margaretta Larpent | AML
was born in the English gentry or professional class, with close connections to Hungarian nobility. In religion she was a pious, serious-minded Anglican
. Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press. 379 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Minifie | The Minifies had bought Fairwater House (now rebuilt and forming part of Taunton School
) in the early eighteenth century. They belonged to the Church of England
and to the gentry or professional class. Margaret... |
Cultural formation | Frances Mary Peard | She was born into the English professional class, with links to the gentry, and seems to have been white. There was property in the family. She was a convinced and committed member of the Church of England |
Cultural formation | Flora Thompson | |
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 | 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 | Jane Williams | Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist
ancestors... |
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... |
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