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Cultural formation | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | In 1878 she returned to organized religion, joining a Unitarian Fellowship. Elizabeth Cazden
believes that ABB
was drawn to the Unitarian church
because it envisioned a benevolent God and defended human freedom and moral reasoning. Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press. 190 |
Cultural formation | Harriet Taylor | Her parents were active Unitarians
, whose social circle included many London intellectuals and dissenters. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf. 101 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fuller | MF
's Unitarian
ism introduced her to a vibrant intellectual community in Cambridge, and at a fairly young age she became a central figure in a social circle that included George Ripley
, William Henry Channing |
Cultural formation | Mary Anne Jevons | Like her parents, MAJ
became a committed Unitarian
who attended chapel regularly. 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Beatrix Potter | Her Lancashire forebears had been, as she imagined them, Puritans, Nonjurors, Nonconformists, Dissenters. Grinstein, Alexander. The Remarkable Beatrix Potter. International Universities Press. 7 |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Rathbone | |
Cultural formation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | She was not baptised, since her father regarded the ceremony as a mere unmeaning shibboleth. Her radical and Unitarian
family background encouraged her bent towards feminism and educational reform. She herself seems to have been... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Cultural formation | Edna Lyall | Her family had been Roman Catholic
back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England. Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co. 3 |
Cultural formation | Mary Carpenter | She belonged to the English middle class; her parents were members of the intellectual aristrocracy of English puritanism, as her father was a dissenting Unitarian
minister. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Mary Augusta Ward | She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland. |
Cultural formation | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
came from a Protestant family but broke with that tradition in favour of many other spiritual pursuits. Biographer Gifford Lewis
writes: even before her teens she had become, in Christian terms, godless and her... |
Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | Her family were Unitarian
s but her father converted to the Church of England
. She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ham | EH
lived to the age of about thirty without questioning her religion, or those parts of the Bible which she could understand. Meeting with earnest Evangelicals would leave her at a loss what to think... |
Cultural formation | Anne Manning | She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge
says her father belonged to the higher professional class: Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett. 211 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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