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Cultural formation | Matilda Hays | |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Cultural formation | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Cultural formation | Mary Hays | MH
was a middle-class Englishwoman, born into a Rational Dissenting faith (ancestor of later Unitarianism
) which she found highly compatible with feminist ideas. As a young woman she flirted with deism. Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon. 80-2 |
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 | Anna Swanwick | She was born into a business family in that great and busy port, and brought up a Liberal and a Unitarian
. In 1831 James Martineau
became the Minister at the chapel in Paradise Street... |
Cultural formation | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Cultural formation | William Hazlitt | He came from an English family with Irish connections, of Dissenting or Unitarian
faith. |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
, who had long ceased to be a Unitarian
and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 3 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. |
Cultural formation | Sarah Flower Adams | Her devout Unitarian
upbringing manifested itself in her writing, most explicitly in her hymns. Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press. 17-20 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. |
Cultural formation | Anna Swanwick | She remained a Unitarian
all her life, but was open-minded enough to enjoy discussing Unitarianism on equal terms with Catholicism, Judaism, and other forms of religious worship Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin. 155 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Hutton | CH
grew up in a Dissenting
family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a... |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
was born into an English, professional, well-known, liberal, Unitarian
family. Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications. Levine, Philippa. Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment. Basil Blackwell. 16-17 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 36 |
Cultural formation | T. S. Eliot | His family were New Englanders for generations back on both sides, and were rich in connections with men of letters. His paternal grandfather was a Unitarian
and an academic. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Ann Jebb |
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