Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT came from a large, highly literate, dynamic, Anglican family that enjoyed the London social scene. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant who had spent much of his adult life in India. Her pseudonym...
Cultural formation Alice Meynell
Alice Thompson (later AM ) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English...
Cultural formation Iris Murdoch
One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism : a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable.
Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, 2001–2002, pp. 52-3.
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Cultural formation Stevie Smith
SS belonged to the English middle class. Her religious background was Anglican , but as her biographer Frances Spalding notes, she was an agnostic who could not entirely abandon belief in a God of Love...
Cultural formation Charlotte Riddell
CR said I may fairly claim to be English, Scotch, and Irish.
qtd. in
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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She was, however, of the Irish or Anglo-Irish gentry by predominant heritage, a Londoner by adoption, an Anglican in religion, and presumumably...
Cultural formation Maria Abdy
As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters .
Cultural formation John Dryden
JD 's family belonged to the gentry class. They were AnglicanPuritans in religion and supporters of the parliament side in the English Civil War.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Goudge
She belonged to the Church of England , which was a great influence on her life.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Joy of the Snow. Hodder and Stoughton, 1974.
244
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 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 Elizabeth B. Lester
From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.
Garside, Peter. “Mrs. Ross and Elizabeth B. Lester: New Attributions”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
2
, June 1998.
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 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.
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Cultural formation Penelope Aubin
Most of what was formerly believed about PA 's background has turned out to be mistaken. She was born out of wedlock to a mother in the English gentry and a father who was not...
Cultural formation Angela Brazil
AB 's family belonged to the British middle class, although her father's family was Irish and her mother was half-Scots, half-Spanish. As an adult she had a stronger sense of ruling-class consciousness than her father's...

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