Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books, 1995.
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Cultural formation | Susanna Moodie | |
Cultural formation | Harriet Shaw Weaver | She was brought up in a wealthy, English, middle-class, evangelical Church of England
household where prayer was read twice daily. By early adulthood she rejected the teachings of the Church, but she kept her views... |
Cultural formation | Pat Arrowsmith | Both her parents were exceedingly religious, Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books, 1995. 20 |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland
member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic
, Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts... |
Cultural formation | William Morris | He came from a white, English, and Anglican
family. His father was a successful financier who brought the family up in great comfort at their Essex mansion. The patriarch's death in 1847 left the Morris... |
Cultural formation | Percy Bysshe Shelley | He was born into a family of the English country gentry, Foxite Whigs but without Percy's radical fire. They were conventionally practising Anglican
s and were outraged at his early espousal of atheism. |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | The Methodist Church
had broken away from the Church of England
in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean. |
Cultural formation | Susannah Gunning | SG
came from the English, presumably white, gentry or professional class, and married into an Irish gentry family which was just securing ties, through socially upward marriage, with the nobility. She belonged to the Church of England |
Cultural formation | Anne Locke | AL
was born into the flourishing urban bourgeoisie of her time. She was apparently English, though the names of both her parents suggest Welsh extraction. Her father said he was neither Lutheran nor yet Tyndalin... |
Cultural formation | Joanna Baillie | JB
was a Scottish writer: though she lived most of her adult life in London, her letters show her vividly aware of her Scots identity, not least in her deliberate use of the Scotticisms which... |
Cultural formation | Elma Napier | EN
was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian
, the family attended a Presbyterian
kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her... |
Cultural formation | Dorothy L. Sayers | James Brabazon
, her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981. 275 |
Cultural formation | Blanche Warre Cornish | BWC
's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church
, and... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Lady Pennington | SLP
was an Englishwoman, born into the professional class, presumably white, who was married for her money. By her marriage moved into the upper reaches of the gentry. She became déclassée on the breakdown of... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's family belonged to genteel and cultured London society. She was a member of the Church of England
and a conservative in politics. |
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