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Cultural formation | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Born into the English peerage, Frances married into its topmost ranks. She was a devout Anglican
all her life, brought up in the Non-juring tradition but latterly embracing an earnest and consistent Evangelicism. She took... |
Cultural formation | Mary Jones | |
Cultural formation | Judith Man | She was by birth an Englishwoman of the professional class dependent on the nobility, politically monarchist and presumably Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Frances Brooke | |
Cultural formation | Florence Farr | Brought up as an Anglican
, she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn
and then in the... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Roberts | She grew up as a member of the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Julia Stretton | She was born into the English middle class, and became a sincere and earnest Anglican
. She grew up in an industrial, working-class area, in which her family was clearly marked out as superior to... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland
in about 1660. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Hamilton King | Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism
... |
Cultural formation | Louisa Anne Meredith | LAM
had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English... |
Cultural formation | Emilie Barrington | |
Cultural formation | Mary Butts | During her second marriage MB
took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic
. Naomi Royde-Smith
(herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts... |
Cultural formation | Emily Davies | |
Cultural formation | Eliza Parsons | She was born into the English provincial bourgeois or urban middling ranks, and was presumably white. She was an Anglican
whose staunch commitment to Protestantism, suspicion of other branches of faith, and dogged belief in... |
Cultural formation | Anne Francis |
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