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Cultural formation | William Morris | He came from a white, English, and Anglican
family. His father was a successful financier who brought the family up in great comfort at their Essex mansion. The patriarch's death in 1847 left the Morris... |
Cultural formation | Dorothy L. Sayers | James Brabazon
, her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1981. 275 |
Cultural formation | Joanna Baillie | JB
was a Scottish writer: though she lived most of her adult life in London, her letters show her vividly aware of her Scots identity, not least in her deliberate use of the Scotticisms which... |
Cultural formation | Winifred Peck | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Helme | She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism
compared with the Anglican
church. |
Cultural formation | Blanche Warre Cornish | BWC
's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church
, and... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Joscelin | EJ
's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican
s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism
. |
Cultural formation | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's family belonged to genteel and cultured London society. She was a member of the Church of England
and a conservative in politics. |
Cultural formation | Anne Manning | She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge
says her father belonged to the higher professional class: Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897. 211 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Emma Jane Worboise | The Literary World was apparently mistaken in calling EJWthe novelist of Evangelical Dissent and in speculating as to whether or not she ever left the Anglican
Church. qtd. in Melnyk, Julie. “Evangelical Theology and Feminist Polemic: Emma Jane Worboises OverdaleWomens Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, Garland, 1998, pp. 107-22. 109 |
Cultural formation | Elma Napier | EN
was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian
, the family attended a Presbyterian
kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her... |
Cultural formation | Christopher St John | At some point after CSJ
met her long-time partner Edith Craig
, she converted from her family's Anglicanism
to Roman Catholicism
. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987. 389 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 250 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Barnard | CB
grew up as an Englishupper-class child, attending the local Anglican Church
. Her family had many servants, including a coachman, a housekeeper, two housemaids, a nurse and a cook. They also owned several properties... |
Cultural formation | Ruth Padel | RP
is an Englishwoman and a member of the Church ofEngland
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | SH
had married as a RomanCatholic
, but her new husband
devoted himself with indefatigable Pains qtd. in Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 38 , June 1991, pp. 165-72. 170 |
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