Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann.
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Cultural formation | Emma Marshall | She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker
, who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the... |
Cultural formation | Anna Eliza Bray | |
Cultural formation | Sara Coleridge | |
Cultural formation | Buchi Emecheta | |
Cultural formation | Ruth Padel | RP
is an Englishwoman and a member of the Church ofEngland
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Cultural formation | Annie S. Swan | Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Walker | EW
was born into the rising English urban middle class, but her husband, who spent much time among the upper classes, later wrote that both he and she were obscure Persons of low Degree. Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat. prelims |
Cultural formation | Dorothea Gerard | Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church
to Roman Catholicism
too early for her to remember it. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 145 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. under Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard |
Cultural formation | Anna Mary Howitt | She was born into a family of Quakers
. Her parents, however, were less strict in their observances than their own parents had been, and later strayed into other beliefs. Her mother dressed Anna Mary... |
Cultural formation | Fanny Aikin Kortright | Although she was baptised in the Church of England
(at three years old, in a naval dockyard chapel), she says that throughout her life she was happy to worship in any Christian church, no matter... |
Cultural formation | Grace, Lady Mildmay | Born into the English gentry class, Grace Sharington was brought up by her mother in the new Protestant, Anglican
religion, in habits of daily prayer and meditation. She believed that salvation would come not through... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Mary, Countess Cowper | MCC
was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England
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Cultural formation | Dorothy L. Sayers | James Brabazon
, her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 275 |
Cultural formation | Annie Tinsley | AT
's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner. 4 |
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