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.
Anglican Church
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic
identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church
and she was herself baptised as an Anglican. |
Cultural formation | Menella Bute Smedley | As a curate's daughter, MBS
belonged to the middle class and the established religion
, but grew up in a kind of genteel poverty because of her father's increasing disability. |
Cultural formation | Agnes Giberne | AG
, a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England
, in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by... |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | SH
, religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism
and joined the Society of Friends
. 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. |
Cultural formation | Anna Margaretta Larpent | AML
was born in the English gentry or professional class, with close connections to Hungarian nobility. In religion she was a pious, serious-minded Anglican
. Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press. 379 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Minifie | The Minifies had bought Fairwater House (now rebuilt and forming part of Taunton School
) in the early eighteenth century. They belonged to the Church of England
and to the gentry or professional class. Margaret... |
Cultural formation | Emilie Barrington | |
Cultural formation | Mary Butts | During her second marriage MB
took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic
. Naomi Royde-Smith
(herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts... |
Cultural formation | Emily Davies | |
Cultural formation | Anne Francis | |
Cultural formation | Margaret Roberts | She grew up as a member of the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Julia Stretton | She was born into the English middle class, and became a sincere and earnest Anglican
. She grew up in an industrial, working-class area, in which her family was clearly marked out as superior to... |
Cultural formation | Noel Streatfeild | |
Cultural formation | Margaret Veley | MV
's middle-class Anglican
family had both English and Swiss forebears. It had all the conservatism common to this group in society; Margaret defined her own liberal and independent thinking against that of her family. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv. vii, ix |
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