Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Anglican Church
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Cultural formation | Sarah, Lady Piers | SLP
was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican
, a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession. |
Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS
was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker
and Rousseauvian
values... |
Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity
in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions... |
Cultural formation | Enid Blyton | She was brought up a Baptist
(baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Charles | She was born into a supportive, professional English family. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray. 6, passim |
Cultural formation | Sophia Jex-Blake | Both of SJB
's parents descended from well-established Norfolk families, presumably white, and belonged to the Anglican Church
. Sophia and her siblings were denied many social indulgences in favour of the work expected of... |
Cultural formation | Rose Macaulay | Her brother's death impelled her to search in Anglican
ritual, liturgy, and sacraments for a faith to sustain her. |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic
identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church
and she was herself baptised as an Anglican. |
Cultural formation | Menella Bute Smedley | As a curate's daughter, MBS
belonged to the middle class and the established religion
, but grew up in a kind of genteel poverty because of her father's increasing disability. 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. |
Cultural formation | Anna Eliza Bray | |
Cultural formation | Sara Coleridge | |
Cultural formation | Buchi Emecheta | |
Cultural formation | Laurence Hope | Adela Cory's English parents were living in India at the time of her birth, as did many Britons throughout the period of British rule over the sub-continent. Her mother's family heritage was Irish. Adela was... |
Cultural formation | Annie Keary | Having found she could live with Broad Church
theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists... |
Cultural formation | Mary Masters |
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