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Cultural formation | Maria Abdy | As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican
church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters
. |
Cultural formation | Fleur Adcock | This Anglican
, of a kind Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press. 44 |
Cultural formation | Lucy Aikin | LA
was a middle-class Englishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was... |
Author summary | Cecil Frances Alexander | CFA
wrote both hymns and verse, the latter also usually adaptable for music. Her work was mainly directed towards young audiences, as she excelled Julian, John, editor. A Dictionary of Hymnology. Dover Publications. Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. 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. |
politics | Cecil Frances Alexander | From 1867-1869, CFA
and her husband
resisted the political crusade against the established Irish Church
. Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix. xiii Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix. xiv |
Cultural formation | Gillian Allnutt | Born into a nominally Anglican
family of the middle or professional class, GA
is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland |
Cultural formation | Ann, Lady Fanshawe | She belonged to the English royalist gentry class. An Anglican
, she resisted pressure in difficult circumstances to convert to Catholicism. |
Cultural formation | Anne, Lady Southwell | ALS
belonged to the English gentry class, with country roots but with contacts and interest at Court. She believed in the new religion, the Protestant Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Pat Arrowsmith | The vicarage was by the sea, and the sheltered atmosphere was almost Victorian in its cocooned world. Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books. back cover |
Cultural formation | Pat Arrowsmith | Both her parents were exceedingly religious, Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books. 20 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She grew up in a pious Anglican
household, and confirmed into the Church at thirteen. Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press. 28 |
Cultural formation | Mary Astell | MA
was a middle-class Englishwoman with strong High Anglican
and Tory opinions. At the same time, her sustained and intense application to the issue of women's status puts her squarely in the category of early... |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | The full title is The Christian Religion, As Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England
. Containing Proper Directions for the due Behaviour of Women in every Station of Life with remarks on... |
Cultural formation | Diana Athill | She was confirmed as an Anglican
while she was at boarding-school, but soon afterwards realised that she did not believe in God. Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta. 219-20 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Atkins | AA
, it appears, was willing to enforce her condemnation of fashionable society to the bitter end, and to add to it an informed critique of current trends in the Anglican Church
. |
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