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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Katharine S. Macquoid | She was born into the urban middle class, of Welsh descent on at least her father's side. She seems to have been an Anglican
, and was presumably white. |
| Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church
, JHN
began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics
and Dissenters
led them to suppose that the... |
| Cultural formation | Jane Austen | |
| Cultural formation | Anne Brontë | |
| Cultural formation | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Her parents were members of the English professional class, and were devout Anglicans
. |
| 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 | 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 | Elizabeth Strickland | Elizabeth, while remaining a practising Anglican
, became remarkable for her capacity to think herself into the mindset of British Roman Catholics
at a time when the generally dominant party in England saw them as... |
| Cultural formation | Susanna Parr | SP
apparently grew up in the Church of England
. Then, seeking a reformation in religion, admiring the non-established churches of New England, and looking, in the heady Civil War years, towards the idea... |
| 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 | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller
's Memoirs. Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852. 134 |
| Cultural formation | L. T. Meade | She was born into the Anglo-Irish middle class and brought up as a member of the Church of Ireland
. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896. 223 Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896. 229 |
| Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bury | Brought up in the Church of England
, she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter
. She remembered that she was... |
| Cultural formation | Charlotte Dacre | |
| Cultural formation | Anna Williams | When AW
felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England
's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols. 4:187 |
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