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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Beverley | Several of her works imitate the form of sermons and express Christian piety (anti-Methodist and probably Anglican
), but this may well be simply part of her stock-in-trade. |
Cultural formation | Willa Cather | WC
was proud to be an American, whose family, Irish in origin, had been in Virginia since colonial times. Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago. 24 |
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 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | CGOB
converted to Catholicism
from the Church of Ireland
. Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. |
Cultural formation | Michèle Roberts | She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR
implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing. 163 |
Cultural formation | Queen Victoria | Princess Alexandrina Victoria
was confirmed an Anglican
at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 47 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bowen | Her biographer Victoria Glendinning
believes that her Anglicanism
was more than merely social, and cites her indignation over the modernising of services in the Book of Common Prayer, and her speaking up in support... |
Cultural formation | Olivia Clarke | |
Cultural formation | George Eliot | |
Cultural formation | Ann Hatton | This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant
and her father a Catholic
. They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage... |
Cultural formation | Katharine S. Macquoid | She was born into the urban middle class, of Welsh descent on at least her father's side. She seems to have been an Anglican
, and was presumably white. |
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 | Mary Julia Young | MJY
's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England
and... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Thomas | She said she was of the middle rank of society, of the old school, both in politics and religion. What she meant by this politically was conservatism: being perfectly satisfied with the powers that be... |
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