Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, pp. 1-17.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Harriet Downing | She seems to have belonged to the upper range of the English middle classes; she had at least an impressive array of contacts, shown in her subscription lists. Baptised into the Church of England
... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Drabble | MD
's family background is 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 joined the Society of Friends |
Cultural formation | Judith Drake | She seems to have come from the professional class and was probably a strong Anglican
and monarchist. |
Literary responses | May Drummond | From the first, however, MD
's preaching was polarizing, attracting not only praise but also criticism more hostile than Cookworthy's. She was blamed for her social manner, for being visibly of a higher rank than... |
Cultural formation | John Dryden | |
Cultural formation | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Cultural formation | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
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 | Maria Edgeworth | She was Anglo-Irish, born into the Protestant (Church of Ireland
) land-owning class. This group at this date produced a number of individuals who sought the political, religious, and technological reform of Irish society... |
Cultural formation | George Eliot | |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | A year and a half after the death of her partner George Henry Lewes
, GE
got married: to their young friend and banker John Walter Cross
, in an Anglican
ceremony at St George's... |
Cultural formation | George Eliot | Brought up in the established church
, GE
became, as a result of her own reading and thinking, from the age of fifteen to twenty-two an Evangelical (although still Anglican) and later an agnostic who... |
Textual Features | George Eliot | The essay contributes, as critic Laurel Brake
has argued, to a continuing debate over gender both within the progressive Westminster itself and in mid-Victorian culture more broadly. Brake, Laurel. Print in Transition. Palgrave. 89, passim |
Cultural formation | T. S. Eliot | TSE
was received into the Church of England
in the parish church at Finstock in Oxfordshire. Five months later, he became a naturalised British subject, which at this date meant renouncing his US citizenship. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 45 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton. 178 |
Literary responses | T. S. Eliot | George Orwell
no doubt spoke for a section of Eliot's readership when he wrote in October 1942 of the first three quartets: There is very little in Eliot's later work that makes any deep impression... |
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