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Cultural formation | Charlotte Brooke | Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans
(following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism
or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were... |
Cultural formation | Maria Susanna Cooper | |
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 | Lady Hester Pulter | Hester Ley was born into a large and upwardly-mobile English gentry family whose religion was Anglican
and whose menfolk were expected to serve (and do well for themselves) in public life: elected to parliament, loyal... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
, who later published as A. L. O. E., formally converted to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England
. Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research. 163: 318 Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm. 71, 75 |
Cultural formation | Joan Whitrow | JW
, a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as... |
Cultural formation | Elinor Glyn | Before the age of six, EG
had renounced orthodox Christianity
; her grandmother had enlisted a clergyman to teach Elinor and her sister the catechism, but both girls rebelled against Christian dogma. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton. 14-15 Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch. 17 |
Cultural formation | Margery Lawrence | ML
was baptised into the Church of England
at five weeks old. Her early poetry speaks of belief in Father God, heaven, and Judgment Day. Lawrence, Margery, and Shane Leslie. Fourteen to Forty-Eight. Robert Hale. 20-1 |
Cultural formation | Josephine Butler | JB
was, however, always careful to distinguish her spiritual beliefs from any particular religious institutions. In a letter of 1883 she acknowledged that I go to the Church once a Sunday out of a feeling... |
Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian
but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican
to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale
held strongly to his Unitarian background and was... |
Cultural formation | Jessie Fothergill | JF
's father, a former Quaker
, was cast out by the Society of Friends
when he married an Anglican
wife. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Scholar Helen Debenham
notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell
, who is writing a... |
Cultural formation | Christopher St John | At some point after CSJ
met her long-time partner Edith Craig
, she converted from her family's Anglicanism
to Roman Catholicism
. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 389 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 250 |
Cultural formation | Sophie Veitch | The Veitch family were presumably white, and belonged to the Scottish gentry, with male members holding professional positions. 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. Burke, John. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke’s Peerage. |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Guest | CG
remained a member of the Church of England
(with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters
were doing a better... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Wentworth Morton | SWM
, born into a comfortable rank in British colonial society, became a proud American. She was proud also of her father's Welsh heritage. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press. 13, 16, 18 |
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