qtd. in
Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol.
2
, 1987, pp. 33-56. 36
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | She also became increasingly preoccupied with the Evangelical movement within the Church ofEngland
. Her continuing interest in UpperCanada included funding Anglican missionary work there and paying for the English university education of several promising... |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic
identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church
and she was herself baptised as an Anglican. |
Cultural formation | Constantia Grierson | Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish qtd. in Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol. 2 , 1987, pp. 33-56. 36 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Grierson |
Cultural formation | Mary Linskill | Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends
and in local trade. Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son, 1969. 5-6 |
Cultural formation | Frances Burney | FB
was serious about her Anglican
faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism
, which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic. Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958. 11 Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 23 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | |
Cultural formation | Mary Tighe | MT
's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist
and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland
. |
Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS
was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker
and Rousseauvian
values... |
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 | Sarah Lady Piers | SLP
was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican
, a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Thomas Hardy | He was baptised into the Church of England
, and as late as the age of twenty-five he was an assiduous church-goer, had some idea of becoming a clergyman, and involved himself deeply in such... |
Cultural formation | Jane Johnson | Susan E. Whyman
locates JJ
among English upper middling-sort women, below the level of gentry. Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009. 163 |
Cultural formation | Phyllis Bentley | Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans
and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her... |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | AB
was confirmed an Anglican
in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism
, but the writing of the Oxford Movement
convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After... |
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. |
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