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Cultural formation Elizabeth Justice
EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches )...
Cultural formation Catherine Marsh
She belonged to the English upper or upper-middle class, and by religion to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England . She never married or had her own children, though she adopted and cared...
Cultural formation Roma White
A romantic sense of her own identity as a white, Christian (apparently Anglican ) Englishwoman seems to inform those of RW 's fictions that fulminate against mixed marriages or liaisons, which she presented as socially...
Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Cultural formation Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT , who later published as A. L. O. E., formally converted to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England .
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 318
Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm, 1981.
71, 75
Cultural formation Ethel Smyth
Born into a professional English family, ES was brought up in the Church of England but abandoned organized religion after she had composed a setting of the Mass in 1891.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Anne Ridler
AR was born into the English professional class. As a baby and small child she always had a nurse-maid.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
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She was confirmed in the Church of England , while at boarding-school, at fifteen and...
Cultural formation Elizabeth von Arnim
By the time May was old enough to make her social debut, her mother was too tired and too lacking in interest to find the time and money necessary to introduce her daughter to society...
Cultural formation Caroline Bowles
While at her garden altar, she experienced a confused sense of something wrong with her worship and so her kept her rituals a profound secret
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
127
from her parents. Guilt eventually drove her to destroy...
Cultural formation Dorothy Osborne
She was an Anglican from the English gentry class.
Cultural formation George Eliot
Brought up in the established church , GE became, as a result of her own reading and thinking, from the age of fifteen to twenty-two an Evangelical (although still Anglican) and later an agnostic who...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland in about 1660.
Cultural formation Ellis Cornelia Knight
Throughout her life ECK associated with the highest English society, at first through connections of her father and later as a result of her years of royal service to Princess Charlotte . Her family lived...
Cultural formation Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...
Cultural formation Mary Webb
Mary was shy, intense, and introspective.
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.
Her biographer Gladys Mary Coles says that both her parents came from moderately wealthy middle-class society, each with strong Church of England connections.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth, 1978.
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Her parents farmed for pleasure...

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