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Cultural formation | Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke | This Mary Sidney was born of the union of two families which were powers in the land. She made the most of her rank. She was a devout Anglican Protestant
, though her father's family... |
Cultural formation | Bessie Head | Brought up by a Roman Catholic
foster-mother, sent to an Anglican
mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next, Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. 2nd edition, Wits University Press, 2007. 20, 25 |
Cultural formation | Mabel Birchenough | |
Cultural formation | Mary Jones | |
Cultural formation | Dorothea Celesia | Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She... |
Cultural formation | Judith Man | She was by birth an Englishwoman of the professional class dependent on the nobility, politically monarchist and presumably Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
sealed his conversion from Roman Catholicism
(probably long since complete) by being ordained a priest of the Church of England
at St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was later to become Dean. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Warren | EW
was apparently a conservative, Puritan
Englishwoman of the gentry or professional class. She belonged to the Church ofEngland
; she attacks both sectaries and Catholics. In politics she was a monarchist. |
Cultural formation | Henrietta Euphemia Tindal | Her family were moneyed members of the English gentry and the Established Church
. |
Cultural formation | Mary Palmer | MP
was born into the English rural professional class on the fringes of the gentry, and was a member of the Church of England
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Cultural formation | Pat Arrowsmith | The vicarage was by the sea, and the sheltered atmosphere was almost Victorian in its cocooned world. Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books, 1995. back cover |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH
was baptised into the Church ofEngland
. Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Boyd | EB
was English, urban, presumably white, and of the middling sort. It is probable from the support she received that her lowest Condition of Fortune was something that happened to her, not something she was... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Hamilton King | Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism
... |
Cultural formation | Frances Power Cobbe | Raised as an Evangelical Christian
, FPC
later became the first heretic in her family, which boasted five archbishops and a bishop. She made a name for herself as a theist theologian, regularly attending Unitarian... |
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