Wachtel, Eleanor, editor. “Carol Shields”. More Writers and Company: New Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel, Vintage Canada, pp. 36-56.
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politics | Evelyn Sharp | Both kept up their political activity during the 1930s with active membership of such organizations as the National Council for Civil Liberties
(whose first executive committee Sharp sat on) and of PEN International
. Even... |
Textual Features | Evelyn Sharp | The diaries cover holidays, travel, her famine relief work in Russia (briefly excerpted in a pamphlet printed by the Friends
Relief Committee), and in Britain the General Strike and civilian life during the Second World... |
Cultural formation | Carol Shields | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Smedley | They had known each other as students at Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 179-83 |
Textual Features | Constance Smedley | The Emotions of Martha is a religious novel, in that Martha Spence's spiritual and emotional development run side by side. At the outset she feels certain that she has a remarkable artistic talent (her subjects... |
Characters | Constance Smedley | The protagonist and letter-writer, Samuel Pumphrey, Smedley, Constance. Justice Walk. G. Allen and Unwin. 122 Smedley, Constance, and Maxwell Armfield. Crusaders. Chatto & Windus. 224 |
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 |
Author summary | Elizabeth Stirredge | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Stirredge | William Tayler, Elizabeth's father, was deeply religious. Elizabeth later cherished the memory of his piety, and regarded his words, There is a day coming wherein truth will gloriously break forth, as a prophecy of the... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Stirredge | A year later she was still seeking a mentor; but in due course she joined the Society of Friends
. After she was well established in her faith, she retained the habit of retiring alone... |
Cultural formation | Marie Stopes | She was born into the Scottish professional classes, with Quaker
heritage on her father's side; the family left Scotland in the year of her birth. |
Cultural formation | Marie Stopes | MS
seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism
associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland
. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate. 185 |
Cultural formation | Ray Strachey | |
Cultural formation | Rosemary Sutcliff | |
Textual Production | Anna Trapnel | AT
is said to have spoken a series of doggerel verses, many of them directed against the Quakers
, which an amanuensis took down from her lips. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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