Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | FN
experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican
Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | Violet Fane | VF
belonged to a well-established family with high social connections. Fane, Violet. “Introduction”. Poems, John C. Nimmo, 1892, p. v - viii. vi |
Cultural formation | Kate Parry Frye | Kate Parry Frye, suffrage organizer, playwright, and prolific diarist, was English (with some Scottish antecedents), middle-class, and presumably white. She was a conventional Anglican
church-goer, but was excited after the war by the preaching of... |
Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | Her family were Unitarian
s but her father converted to the Church of England
. She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of... |
Cultural formation | Melesina Trench | She was born into the Anglo-Irish upper middle class, with dignitaries in the Church of Ireland
on both sides of her family, whose origin was French Huguenot. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Frances Sheridan | FS
was born a middle-class Anglican
Irishwoman (though her father was English, and after her death her grand-daughter-biographer chose to think of her as English). Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35. 29 |
Cultural formation | Pandita Ramabai | While living with the Anglican sisterhood
at Wantage inBerkshire, PR
was baptised into the Church ofEngland
by William Butler
, together with her daughter, Manorama. She took the name Mary Rama. Blumhofer, Edith L. “From India’s Coral Strand: Pandita Ramabai and U. S. Support for Foreign Missions”. The Foreign Mission Enterprise at Home, edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker, University of Alamaba Press, 2003, pp. 152-70. 155-6 Adhav, Shamsundar Manohar. Pandita Ramabai. Christian Literature Society, 1979. x Maiorani, Arianna. “Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922)”. Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present, edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp, Continuum, 2005, pp. 113-25. 116 |
Cultural formation | Augusta Gregory | |
Cultural formation | Alethea Lewis | |
Cultural formation | Mary Anne Barker | Brought up in the Church of England
, she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died, Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009. 86-7 |
Cultural formation | Josephine Butler | |
Cultural formation | Mary Whateley Darwall | MWD
came from the rural middle class, from middle England and the established church
. Her father not only owned his land but even considered himself a gentleman (though neither his income nor, probably, his... |
Cultural formation | Edith Templeton | Both Edith's parents were from wealthy, land-owning families. She was educated and influenced by European aesthetics, and prides herself on her cosmopolitanism. Her several languages include English, German, and French; her first was Czech. She... |
Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | While working for the Daily HeraldGHS
developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard
, who was one influence towards her conversion to... |
Cultural formation | Ruth Pitter | RP
was baptised an Anglican as a baby by parents who had trained at Church of England colleges but were not churchgoers. Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40. 29 |
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