Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Anglican Church
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Cultural formation | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Underhill | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Lady Cowper | SLC
was a fervent Anglican
: her husband felt her piety would wear out a parson, let alone a man of some religious scepticism like himself. Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002. 23 |
Cultural formation | Mary Julia Young | MJY
's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England
and... |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was baptised into the Anglican
Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes
, a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 132 Walker, Dorothea. Muriel Spark. Twayne, 1988. 3 Whittaker, Ruth. The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark. Macmillan, 1982. 25 |
Cultural formation | Radagunda Roberts | She seems to have been of Welsh extraction, and was presumably white. Her brothers had solid professional careers; she presumably belonged, like others of her family, to the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Emily Gerard | She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church
, which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism
, EG
and... |
Cultural formation | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
practised spirit drawing (letting invisible spirits guide her hand) and automatic or spirit writing; spiritualism also led her to vegetarianism. But she and her husband remained in the Church of England
despite their belief... |
Cultural formation | Philip Larkin | |
Cultural formation | Frances Bellerby | She was brought up in the Anglican
church, but very definitely as one of the Anglo-Catholic minority. After her brother's death she turned against religion. |
Cultural formation | Ada Cambridge | Critics Margaret Bradstock
and Louise Wakeling
write that AC
's faith was strongly challenged by the deaths of her first two children: this was probably . . . the beginning of her questioning of Divine... |
Cultural formation | Anna Wheeler | AW
came from a wealthy and socially prominent Protestant
Irish landowning family; she was the god-daughter of the Irish nationalist Henry Grattan
. Her family life was intellectual and enlightened, as well as prosperous: the... |
Cultural formation | E. M. Delafield |
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