Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Nina Hamnett
Born into the English professional class, NH lost no time in becoming cosmopolitan and déclassée. She was brought up to believe that women were worth less than men, though she later discovered that female gender...
Cultural formation Maria Jane Jewsbury
The Jewsbury family was middle-class, English, and white. MJJ was a practising member of the Church of England .
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
66
, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
180
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
38
Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
216
Cultural formation Rose Macaulay
On her return from a holiday in Italy, RM received a letter from her former confessor, Father Hamilton Johnson , which in due course brought her back to the Anglican Church.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
298, 301
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
193
Cultural formation Susanna Wesley
SW was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)...
Cultural formation Frances Brooke
FB was from an upper-middle class English family in which many men were Anglican clergymen. The family's social position meant that, as a child, she enjoyed the luxury of self-education in libraries collected by her...
Cultural formation Edith J. Simcox
She was christened on 11 September 1844 at Christchurch Greyfriars in London. Her family belonged to the English middle class and was presumably white. After an Anglican upbringing, she moved away from conventional religious...
Cultural formation Florence Farr
Brought up as an Anglican , she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn and then in the...
Cultural formation Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Florence Nightingale
FN experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic
Cultural formation Margaret Holford
Her parents belonged securely to the minor English gentry; her husband followed a profession as a clergyman of the Church of England , to which she presumably belonged.
Cultural formation Annie Keary
Her mother and father were respectively northern English and Irish ascendency. Both came from the gentry class and seem to have been white. Brought up in the Church of England , AK was a deeply...
Cultural formation Damaris Masham
She was an Anglican : questioning on issues of religion, but a firm believer. Historian Karen O'Brien places her as a late Latudinarian, belonging to a group within the Church of England which was...
Cultural formation Monica Furlong
MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women.
qtd. in
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, 1990.
She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...
Cultural formation Henrietta Battier
HB 's writings demonstrate that she was not only Irish but also an Irish nationalist, a Whig, a Protestant (probably Church of Ireland ) and a sympathiser with freemasonry.
Battier, Henrietta. The Protected Fugitives. James Porter, 1791, http://Bodleian: 280 i 105.
xiv, 120-30, 158ff, 27-31, 163ff, 181-2, 190-2
Cultural formation A. S. Byatt
ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...

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