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
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
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 | |
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. |
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 |
No timeline events available.
No bibliographical results available.