Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Anglican Church
Connections
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Cultural formation | Louisa Anne Meredith | LAM
had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English... |
Cultural formation | Eliza Meteyard | EM
came from a professional Anglican
family. She was an advocate of social reform, particularly of educational reform, and of wider roles for women. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. 1271 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. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | She also became increasingly preoccupied with the Evangelical movement within the Church ofEngland
. Her continuing interest in UpperCanada included funding Anglican missionary work there and paying for the English university education of several promising... |
Cultural formation | Samuel Beckett | The Becketts were of middle-class, solidly protestant, Anglo-Irish stock. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bair, Deirdre. Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Vintage, 1990. 4-5 |
Cultural formation | Maria Callcott | |
Cultural formation | Ann Gomersall | AG
appears to have come from the English middle class, perhaps the urban middle class, and to have been, at least late in life, a pious and active Christian. Her works show her to be... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Davy | SD
, apparently by birth an Englishwoman of the middling ranks and an Anglican
, converted, as one of the most significant actions of her life, to join an Independent
or Baptist
congregation. Some modern... |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutton | She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Forster | As a child she knelt at bedtime to say her prayers: she loved praying and did it with great intensity. After the regulation Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, she would talk to Jesus (rather than... |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Leigh | |
Cultural formation | Mary Tighe | MT
's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist
and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland
. |
Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS
was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker
and Rousseauvian
values... |
Cultural formation | Barbara Blaugdone | She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and... |
Cultural formation | C. E. Plumptre | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Chapone | As a country clergyman's daughter SC
was an Anglican
of the English professional class. Her correspondence with John Wesley
bears witness to the strength and immediacy of her Christian faith, but she did not agree... |
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