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Cultural formation | Lady Anne Clifford | As a peer's daughter who had no brother, LAC
was highly privileged. She writes of her religion (Anglican
) as an important part of her education. Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997. 1, 221 Clifford, Lady Anne. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents. Editor Gilson, Julius Parnell, Roxburghe Club, 1916. 28 |
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 | Constantia Grierson | Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish qtd. in Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol. 2 , 1987, pp. 33-56. 36 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Grierson |
Cultural formation | Augusta Webster | She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was... |
Cultural formation | Mary Linskill | Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends
and in local trade. Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son, 1969. 5-6 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Avery | Born into the English middling ranks, she followed her father in having a turbulent history of denominational allegiance. He went from Anglicanism to heterodox views and millenarianism. She went from membership of the Established Church |
Cultural formation | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
was born into the English professional class and the Anglican
faith. After she went to India the fact that she was white became a crucial part of her identity. After meeting Henry Martyn
she... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Brontë | |
Cultural formation | Cassandra Cooke | She belonged securely to the English professional or gentry class, and to the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Zoë Fairbairns | She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture... |
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 | Sarah Lady Piers | SLP
was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican
, a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Thomas Hardy | He was baptised into the Church of England
, and as late as the age of twenty-five he was an assiduous church-goer, had some idea of becoming a clergyman, and involved himself deeply in such... |
Cultural formation | Jane Johnson | Susan E. Whyman
locates JJ
among English upper middling-sort women, below the level of gentry. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009. 163 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Thomas | She said she was of the middle rank of society, of the old school, both in politics and religion. What she meant by this politically was conservatism: being perfectly satisfied with the powers that be... |
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