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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 | Amelia Opie | AO
, who had left the Unitarian
church in 1814 and taken the decision to convert to Quakerism, had her application to join the Society of Friends
accepted. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
was brought as a Quaker
. Both her parents were members of the Society of Friends
, to which her family had belonged for generations. They were also proud of their Welsh ancestry. 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. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 4 |
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 | Joan Whitrow | JW
, a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp | |
Cultural formation | Emilie Barrington | |
Cultural formation | Mary Peisley | |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
became a Unitarian
like John Taylor
before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker
in 1790. |
Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian
English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent
to Quakerism
, Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Jolley | EJ
was born into the white middle class. She described the family in which she grew up ashalf-English and three-quarters Viennese. Daniel, Helen. Liars: Australian New Novelists. Penguin. 272 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | ES
says the Lord began to work in her heart, preparing a conversion experience, when the QuakersJohn Audland
and John Camm
shamed her about her fine clothes. Stirredge, Elizabeth. Strength in Weakness Manifest. J. Sowle. 15 |
Cultural formation | May Drummond | Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland
, MD
was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Although SG
was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black
described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | MF
and her family were converted to Quakerism
by George Fox
. Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan. x |
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