Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins
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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 | Frances Arabella Rowden | FAR
came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican
in religion. Mary Russell Mitford
represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were... |
Cultural formation | Mary Penington | |
Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | While working for the Daily HeraldGHS
developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard
, who was one influence towards her conversion to... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | She belonged to the English professional class, and was presumably white and a member of the Church of England
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins |
Cultural formation | Constantia Grierson | Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol. 2 , pp. 33-56. 36 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Grierson |
Cultural formation | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She came from an English, presumably white, middle-class, Anglican
family. As an adult she became an agnostic, and also entertained an interest in spiritualism. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Cultural formation | Alethea Lewis | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Barnard | CB
grew up as an English upper-class child, attending the local Anglican Church
. Her family had many servants, including a coachman, a housekeeper, two housemaids, a nurse and a cook. They also owned several... |
Cultural formation | Emily Davies | The household was quite evangelical
, owing to the influence of Emily's father, but she herself leaned in adulthood towards the Christian socialism of F. D. Maurice
. Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press. 67-8 Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable. 19, 21, 27 |
Cultural formation | Martha Fowke | MF
came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic
heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | MP
was baptised a Christian by an Anglican
clergyman, James Curtin
; though empowered to baptise her in the name of the Trinity, he would not let her attend his Sunday school without her owner's permission. Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora. 73-4 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | EPS
belonged to the English gentry class, though her father was of Welsh descent. Though she never thought of herself as assuming Canadian nationality, her writings have given her the status of an honorary Canadian... |
Cultural formation | Joanna Trollope | JT
grew up as a member of the English professional class and of the Church of England
. |
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