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Cultural formation | Agatha Christie | |
Cultural formation | Eliza Dunlop | She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican
church. Though she spent most of her adult... |
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, 1896. 145 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. 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 | Lady Caroline Lamb | She was confirmed into the Church of England
and despite her family's lax sexual morals, she imbibed from them the habit of taking her religion seriously. She was much distressed by her agnostic husband's attempts... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth White | Nothing is known of her family except that they were Anglicans
. They probably belonged somewhere in the English middling classes. |
Cultural formation | Susan Miles | |
Cultural formation | Catharine Trotter | While a young woman CT
converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism
, the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian
religion were of no importance... |
Cultural formation | W. H. Auden | Around the same time he took up again the Anglicanism of his childhood, this time in the form of the USEpiscopalian
church. In this he was influenced at the time by such socially-conscious Christian... |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Sleath | ES
belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church
, though gothicists Michael Sadleir
and Devendra P. Varma
, who had different theories... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater | Lady Elizabeth Cavendish's birth family was not remarkable for its piety, but she may have been an exception among them. As an unmarried girl she wrote her name in a copy of St Peter's Complaint... |
Cultural formation | Adrienne Rich | AR
described her subjectivity as split at the root. qtd. in Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. 13: 253 |
Cultural formation | William Congreve | He was born into the northern English minor country gentry, but he grew up (as an Anglican
) in Ireland, spending his childhood and youth there. |
Cultural formation | Katharine Evans | KE
grew up an Anglican
, but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists
, then the Independents
, before becoming one of the Society of Friends
very soon after its inception... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Green | SG
seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican
, yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers
, millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite |
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