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Cultural formation | Charlotte Maria Tucker | CMT
, who later published as A. L. O. E., formally converted to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England
. Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996. 163: 318 Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm, 1981. 71, 75 |
Cultural formation | Emily Davies | |
Cultural formation | Ethel Smyth | Born into a professional English family, ES
was brought up in the Church of England
but abandoned organized religion after she had composed a setting of the Mass in 1891. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The child of wealthy English Anglican
family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an... |
Cultural formation | Anne Ridler | AR
was born into the English professional class. As a baby and small child she always had a nurse-maid. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp. 9 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Green | SG
seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican
, yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers
, millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite |
Cultural formation | Naomi Jacob | NJ
was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost... |
Cultural formation | Amy Levy | AL
was an upper-middle-class Jew from a family which had been English for over a century, though they travelled the world for career purposes more freely than most English people. Many reference books still repeat... |
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 | E. Owens Blackburne | She was Irish by birth and family, presumably white, and probably Protestant, which is to say a member of the Church of Ireland
. O’Donoghue, David James. The Poets of Ireland. Gale Research, 1968. 62 Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols. |
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 | Jan Morris | She asserted that she had never been a believing Christian, though she was steeped in the music and architecture of Anglicanism
and the culture of Christianity in general. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016. 5 |
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 | Harriet Downing | She seems to have belonged to the upper range of the English middle classes; she had at least an impressive array of contacts, shown in her subscription lists. Baptised into the Church of England
... |
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 |
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