Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press, 1996.
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Cultural formation | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | She was thus a member of the Anglo-Irish professional class, Anglican
in religion and presumably white. |
Cultural formation | Susanna Moodie | In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle
, Methodist
secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon... |
Cultural formation | Frances Notley | FN
's christening in the Church of England is listed as having taken place at Old St Pancras Church in London on 24 January 1843. If there is no mistake in this record, her being... |
Cultural formation | Isabella Bird | IB
came from an English, professional, upper-middle-class family background, strongly religious in the Evangelical wing of the Church ofEngland
. She grew up in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment. Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press, 1996. 3-6 Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray, 1906. 1 Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996. 166:30 |
Cultural formation | Mary Lady Champion de Crespigny | She evidently sprang from the English gentry class within which she also married. Yet her origins and connections are obscure, whereas her husband's family (French Huguenots in origin) was conspicuously well-connected. She was presumably white.... |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic
. He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his... |
Cultural formation | Augusta Webster | She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was... |
Cultural formation | Mary Martha Sherwood | MMS
was born into the English professional class and the Anglican
faith. After she went to India the fact that she was white became a crucial part of her identity. After meeting Henry Martyn
she... |
death | Joan Whitrow | She was buried, according to her own instructions in the garden of Mathias Perkins
, her executor, “People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum. |
death | Monica Furlong | MF
died of cancer at Umberleigh in Devon. She was called the Church of England
's most influential and creative layperson of the post-war period GRAS Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod. http://replay.web.archive.org/20081023195744/http://www.gras.org.uk/default.htm. |
death | Anne Conway | More commented, I perceive and bless God for it, that my Lady Conway was my Lady Conway to her Last Breath. Conway, Anne et al. The Conway Letters. Editor Hutton, Sarah, Revised, Clarendon Press, 1992. 451 |
Dedications | Jane Barker | It appeared though Curll
and Rivington
, dedicated to the Countess of Nottingham
(an Anglican
who was said to be a Catholic
sympathiser). Its frontispiece is an engraving of the Crucifixion. It has recently been... |
Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Like all her siblings but one, MG
had been taught to read before she went to the local Church of England
infants' school, St Michael's, at the age of five. Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962. 19 |
Education | P. D. James | PDJ
qualified to attend the high-school in Ludlow, but was not permitted to go; there was not enough money for the number of pupils offered places, and she was dropped from the list. Instead, she... |
Education | William Morris | WM
entered Exeter College, Oxford
, with the intention of going into the Church
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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