Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994.
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Cultural formation | Anna Eliza Bray | |
Cultural formation | Susanna Wesley | SW
was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)... |
Cultural formation | Sara Coleridge | |
Cultural formation | Buchi Emecheta | |
Cultural formation | Edith J. Simcox | She was christened on 11 September 1844 at Christchurch Greyfriars in London. Her family belonged to the English middle class and was presumably white. After an Anglican
upbringing, she moved away from conventional religious... |
Cultural formation | Nina Hamnett | Born into the English professional class, NH
lost no time in becoming cosmopolitan and déclassée. She was brought up to believe that women were worth less than men, though she later discovered that female gender... |
Cultural formation | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The Jewsbury family was middle-class, English, and white. MJJ
was a practising member of the Church of England
. Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 66 , No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03. 180 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 38 Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996. 216 |
Cultural formation | Rose Macaulay | On her return from a holiday in Italy, RM
received a letter from her former confessor, Father Hamilton Johnson
, which in due course brought her back to the Anglican
Church. Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991. 298, 301 Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972. 193 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Anna Letitia Waring | ALW
converted from the Society of Friends
to Anglicanism
(with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire. Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911. 6 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001. 240: 306 |
Cultural formation | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Alice Thornton | She was a devout Anglican
. In 1631, as a small child, she underwent a kind of conversion experience: it pleased God to come into my soule by some beames of his mercy. Thornton, Alice. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton. Editor Jackson, Charles, 1809 - 1882, Published for the Society by Andrews, 1875. 6 |
Cultural formation | Anna Seward | AS
belonged to the Anglican
genteel or middle ranks. She had small tolerance for Dissenters. Critic Harriet Guest
summarizes her political position as polite and provincial whiggery. Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000. 265 |
Cultural formation | Mary Julia Young | MJY
's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England
and... |
Cultural formation | E. J. Scovell | Born into the English middle classes, EJS
was brought up an Anglican
but after an interim period as a pantheist settled down as an an agnostic. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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