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Cultural formation | E. M. Delafield | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Freke | Her Anglican
piety extended to keeping a coffin by her bed to remind her of her latter end, but did not extend to submission to authority. I disputte nott your lordships rightt, and farr be... |
Cultural formation | C. E. Plumptre | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Shirley | Born into the English gentry, ES
was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic: 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 | Dorothy Whipple | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hands | EH
was an Englishwoman, baptised into the EstablishedChurch
, in her own words born in obscurity, and never emerging beyond the lower stations in life. Hands, Elizabeth. The Death of Amnon. Printed for the Author. dedication |
Cultural formation | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic
priest, but found it unsatisfying. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press. 222 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 24 |
Cultural formation | Catharine Macaulay | |
Cultural formation | John Dryden | |
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 | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's father also rejected his family's religious nonconformism. While most of them were Baptists, he married as an Anglican and took his family to St Helen's Anglican
Church in Abingdon. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research. 205-6 Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 3-4 |
Cultural formation | Rachel Speght | |
Cultural formation | Margaret Holford | Her parents belonged securely to the minor English gentry; her husband followed a profession as a clergyman of the Church of England
, to which she presumably belonged. |
Cultural formation | Penelope Aubin | Most of what was formerly believed about PA
's background has turned out to be mistaken. She was born out of wedlock to a mother in the English gentry and a father who was not... |
Cultural formation | Sheila Kaye-Smith | From childhood SKS
was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans
(though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian
). Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne. 18 |
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