Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994.
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Cultural formation | Buchi Emecheta | |
Cultural formation | Martha Hale | She belonged to the English gentry class and to the Church of England |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
converted from the Society of Friends
to Anglicanism
(with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911. 6 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 306 |
Cultural formation | Alice Thornton | She was a devout Anglican
. In 1631, as a small child, she underwent a kind of conversion experience: it pleased God to come into my soule by some beames of his mercy. Thornton, Alice. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton. Editor Jackson, Charles, 1809 - 1882, Published for the Society by Andrews, 1875. 6 |
Cultural formation | Anna Seward | AS
belonged to the Anglican
genteel or middle ranks. She had small tolerance for Dissenters. Critic Harriet Guest
summarizes her political position as polite and provincial whiggery. Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000. 265 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Mary Penington | |
Cultural formation | Frances Ridley Havergal | FRH
grew up in a pious Anglican
family, and was later deeply religious herself, as evident in her writings. She developed an interest in the Church Missionary Society
(as well as its Irish counterpart), the... |
Cultural formation | Pamela Hansford Johnson | Religion, too, became important to PHJ
in her youth. Though she notes a streak of emotional Calvinism Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974. 13 |
Cultural formation | Lucas Malet | LM
was born into the English professional class or intelligentsia. She grew up in the heart of the Church of England
, but later, despite the irreverence with which her writings handle religious topics, converted... |
Cultural formation | Ann Yearsley | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Strickland | Her High Anglican
family was well-positioned in the English middle class at the time of her birth, but although her father had aspirations to rise higher, the opposite happened. They became more and more short... |
Cultural formation | Ada Cambridge | AC
worshipped in the AnglicanChurch
both as a child and adult, and her early novellas, hymns, and poems emphasize her strong religious faith. Bradstock, Margaret, and Louise Wakeling. Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. Penguin, 1991. 5 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
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