Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
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Cultural formation | Susan Tweedsmuir | Her immediate, nuclear family was an enclave of agnosticism while her extended family was unanimously Anglican
—though not uniformly, since it was sharply divided between High and Low Church. Her memoirs emphasise the moral strength... |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | The Church ofEngland
was still resolved against ordaining women when in 1986 a vote was passed forbidding invitations to visiting, foreign women priests to celebrate Holy Communion. MF
and her associates responded by founding the... |
Cultural formation | Emily Hickey | Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland
, she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research. 199: 167 Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press. 17, 18 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Justice | EJ
was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England
(with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox
and of the Roman Catholic Churches
)... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Marsh | She belonged to the English upper or upper-middle class, and by religion to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England
. She never married or had her own children, though she adopted and cared... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
converted to Catholicism
from the Church of Ireland
. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Michèle Roberts | She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR
implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing. 163 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Elstob | She was a middle-class, English, presumably white, High Tory Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Queen Victoria | Princess Alexandrina Victoria
was confirmed an Anglican
at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 47 |
Cultural formation | Anna Williams | |
Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | Alice Thompson (later AM
) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Browne | She grew up adhering to a private religion of her own, a Romantic religion of the imagination. In 1832, however, a kind of conversion experience made her a conventional Christian, an Anglican
like the rest... |
Cultural formation | Louisa Stuart Costello | Her family were professional people of Irish extraction. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Thomas | She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican
in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Isham | EI
took after her mother in being personally very devout as an adult, though she was nearly twenty when for the first time she aprehended or took seriously to heart a sermon as applying to... |
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