qtd. in
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.
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Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | FN
experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican
Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | MF
was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. qtd. in 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. |
Cultural formation | Susanna Parr | After this decisive step the former bickering and negotiation continued. Two women visited her, very likely at the instigation of their husbands, to beg her to stay. After a couple of months, however, this church... |
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 | Gerard Manley Hopkins | He was born into an English family of comfortable middle-class means, who were devout practising High Church Anglican
s. From at least his student days it seems that Gerard was attracted chiefly if not exclusively... |
Cultural formation | A. S. Byatt | |
Cultural formation | Flora Thompson | |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | She was brought up as an Anglican
, but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism
(in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism
. |
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/. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Mead | MM
was born into the American professional class. She decided to become a Christian (an Episcopalian
) when she was nearly nine, as a gesture of rebellion against the freethinking of her parents. Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, p. xii; 540 pp. 104 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Gatty | She was born into an English, presumably white, strongly Anglican
family of the professional class. Male members of her family on both sides had risen in their professions through sheer ability, and there was a... |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Glover | |
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 | Queen Victoria | Princess Alexandrina Victoria
was confirmed an Anglican
at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 47 |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican
religion, she for... |
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