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Cultural formation | Joan Vokins | Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican
. In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge. 216 |
Cultural formation | Mary Howitt | |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | IM
was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland
, had come down in the... |
Cultural formation | Virginia Woolf | VW
was the daughter not only of an educated man, Woolf, Virginia. Three Guineas. Hogarth Press. 10 |
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 | May Drummond | The Gracechurch Street, London, Meeting of the Society of Friends
decided to expel MD
from the Society. Reilly, Matthew. “The Life and Literary Fictions of May Drummond, Quaker Female Preacher”. Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 28 , No. 2, pp. 287-12. 306, 310 |
Cultural formation | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Either KBG
had become a member of the Society of Friends
in time to send her youngest child to a Quaker school, or else the example of the school persuaded her to convert. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 241 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Hester Biddle | |
Cultural formation | Anne Whitehead | She was baptised an Anglican
, and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends
. Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around... |
Cultural formation | Bathsheba Bowers | |
Cultural formation | Ray Strachey | |
Cultural formation | Bathsheba Bowers | BB
became something of a recluse in Philadelphia. According to her niece Ann Bolton, she was prone to reading the Bible with the intention of finding fault with it, Mulford, Carla et al., editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Gale Research. |
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 | Susanna Wright | Born an English middle-class Quaker
, she emigrated, probably as an adolescent, and lived her mature life as an American. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Corp |
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