Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books, 1995.
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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. back cover |
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. 20 (October 1888): 324 |
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. 45 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Ackroyd, Peter. T.S. Eliot. Hamish Hamilton, 1984. 178 |
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. 20, 25 |
Cultural formation | Mary Jones | |
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. 20-1 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. |
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