Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler, 1987.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Louisa Baldwin | The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society. Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler, 1987. 20 Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969. 7-8 |
| Cultural formation | Brigid Brophy | |
| Cultural formation | Frances Cornford | She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge
's The Daisy Chain, she had... |
| Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | |
| Cultural formation | Anna Jane Vardill | She belonged to the English professional class (though her father had been an American colonist before the Revolution) and the Anglican Church
. She was presumably white. |
| Cultural formation | Mary Stewart | MS
was born to an Englishman and a New Zealander, into the middle class and the Church of England
. Her family moved when she was a baby from Sunderland, where her father was... |
| Cultural formation | Christina Rossetti | She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch
, she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura... |
| Cultural formation | Ruth Padel | RP
is an Englishwoman and a member of the Church ofEngland
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
| Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | SH
had married as a RomanCatholic
, but her new husband
devoted himself with indefatigable Pains qtd. in Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 38 , June 1991, pp. 165-72. 170 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Kingsley | MK
's family was English and presumably white, but it embodied several internal contradictions. Through her father she belonged to the professional classes, but on her mother's side she sprang from the working class. Her... |
| Cultural formation | Eliza Meteyard | EM
came from a professional Anglican
family. She was an advocate of social reform, particularly of educational reform, and of wider roles for women. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965. 1271 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970. |
| Cultural formation | Henrietta Battier | HB
's writings demonstrate that she was not only Irish but also an Irish nationalist, a Whig, a Protestant (probably Church of Ireland
) and a sympathiser with freemasonry. Battier, Henrietta. The Protected Fugitives. James Porter, 1791, http://Bodleian: 280 i 105. xiv, 120-30, 158ff, 27-31, 163ff, 181-2, 190-2 |
| Cultural formation | A. S. Byatt | |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth White | Nothing is known of her family except that they were Anglicans
. They probably belonged somewhere in the English middling classes. |
| Cultural formation | Catharine Trotter | While a young woman CT
converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism
, the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian
religion were of no importance... |
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