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.
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Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Anna Wheeler | AW
came from a wealthy and socially prominent Protestant
Irish landowning family; she was the god-daughter of the Irish nationalist Henry Grattan
. Her family life was intellectual and enlightened, as well as prosperous: the... |
Cultural formation | Anna Wheeler | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wheeler | AW
's father, Nicholas Milley Doyle
, was a radical Anglican, who became, however, a prebendary in the Church of Ireland
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Swindles, Julia. Political Women 1800 - 1850. Editors Frow, Ruth and Edmund Frow, Pluto Press. 205 Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research. 349 Several sources say he was an archbishop. |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Whipple | |
politics | Dorothy White | |
Textual Production | Dorothy White | She addressed it especially to the Anglican
congregation of St Paul's Cathedral—which may mean she had caused some disturbance there. |
Cultural formation | Roma White | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth White | Nothing is known of her family except that they were Anglicans
. They probably belonged somewhere in the English middling classes. |
Cultural formation | Anne Whitehead | She was baptised an Anglican
, and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends
. Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Joan Whitrow | |
death | Joan Whitrow | She was buried, according to her own instructions in the garden of Mathias Perkins
, her executor, “People. Joan Whitrow”. The Twickenham Museum. |
Cultural formation | Joan Whitrow | JW
, a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as... |
Cultural formation | Anna Williams | When AW
felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England
's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press. 4:187 |
Cultural formation | Anna Williams | |
Cultural formation | Jane Williams | Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist
ancestors... |
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