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Cultural formation | Catherine Talbot | She came of ecclesiastical
families on both sides. Her male relations had risen high in the Church, and were gentry with links to the aristocracy. But despite their connections, her father's death ensured that she... |
Cultural formation | John Millington Synge | Born into the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy (of a family with close ties on both sides to the Anglican, that is Protestant, Church ofIreland
), JMS
grew up in his mother's atmosphere of Calvinistic fervour. He... |
Cultural formation | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist
mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection
, and an Irish, originally Catholic
, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish... |
Cultural formation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | ACS
came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham
and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy
). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne
, owned an... |
Employer | Jonathan Swift | In the late seventeenth century Swift worked for Sir William Temple
(husband of the letter-writer Dorothy Osborne
), became an ordained clergyman, and embarked on a career of political pamphleteering. He took on his first... |
Cultural formation | Annie S. Swan | Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Strutt | |
Cultural formation | Jan Struther | JS
was born to an upper-class family, and later felt that her childhood friendships with the household servants had awakened in her a sense of social justice and protest. Ironically, she came to be widely... |
Cultural formation | Agnes Strickland | Her securely middle-class family had aspirations to rise higher in the social scale, but their financial status steadily declined. They were High Anglicans
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Strickland | Her High Anglican
family was well-positioned in the English middle class at the time of her birth, but although her father had aspirations to rise higher, the opposite happened. They became more and more short... |
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 | 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 | Noel Streatfeild | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Noel Streatfeild | Noel's father, William Streatfeild
, had grown up as the eldest of ten children of a clergy family in a rather grand house. He too went into the Anglican Church
, in which he was... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Beecher Stowe | In 1816, HBS
went to stay for a time with her grandmother in a setting widely different from her birth home. Her father's home is described as being Congregational
and democratic in contrast to the... |
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