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Cultural formation Pat Arrowsmith
The vicarage was by the sea, and the sheltered atmosphere was almost Victorian in its cocooned world.
Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books, 1995.
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Her Anglican family was comfortably upper-middle class, and thought of itself as upper-class. As a child...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Boyd
EB was English, urban, presumably white, and of the middling sort. It is probable from the support she received that her lowest Condition of Fortune was something that happened to her, not something she was...
Cultural formation Frances Power Cobbe
Raised as an Evangelical Christian , FPC later became the first heretic in her family, which boasted five archbishops and a bishop. She made a name for herself as a theist theologian, regularly attending Unitarian...
Cultural formation Georgiana Fullerton
GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Wiseman, Nicholas, editor. The Dublin Review. Burns and Oates.
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Cultural formation T. S. Eliot
TSE was received into the Church of England in the parish church at Finstock in Oxfordshire. Five months later, he became a naturalised British subject, which at this date meant renouncing his US citizenship.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984.
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Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Potter (later BW ) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions...
Cultural formation Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
This Mary Sidney was born of the union of two families which were powers in the land. She made the most of her rank. She was a devout Anglican Protestant , though her father's family...
Cultural formation Bessie Head
Brought up by a Roman Catholic foster-mother, sent to an Anglican mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next,
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. 2nd edition, Wits University Press, 2007.
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she wrote later that for years...
Cultural formation Mary Jones
MJ was a middle-class Anglican Englishwoman.
Cultural formation Judith Man
She was by birth an Englishwoman of the professional class dependent on the nobility, politically monarchist and presumably Anglican .
Cultural formation Enid Bagnold
EB was confirmed in the Church ofEngland in March 1905, but she hated churchgoing (which her father dubbed Satan-chasing) and leaned toward atheism. As a young woman, she moved in artistic circles in London.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Charlotte Brooke
Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans (following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...
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 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.
Cultural formation Ruth Padel
RP is an Englishwoman and a member of the Church ofEngland .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Her surname bears witness to her father's ethnic origins as one of the Wends or Sorbs, a Slavic people hailing from the region...

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