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Cultural formation | Ann Bridge | AB
sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian
(in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was... |
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 | Constance Holme | CH
's parents came from long-established gentry families in their area and were said to have been regarded with deep respect by local people—a respect which they would have claimed as their due. She was... |
Cultural formation | Mary Maria Colling | Baptised a Congregationalist
, that is in contemporary terms a Dissenter
, MMC
later became a practising Anglican
. She was deeply religious. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85. 17 An Independent church in England is normally Congregational, though the Wesleyan Independent sect also existed. Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. J. M. Dent. |
Cultural formation | Molly Keane | Her family belonged to the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. MK
called them a rather serious hunting and fishing, church-going
family. Breen, Mary. “Piggies and Spoilers of Girls: The Representation of Sexuality in the Novels of Molly Keane”. Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing, St Martin’s Press, pp. 202-20. 202 |
Cultural formation | Ephelia | If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I
her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced... |
Cultural formation | Mary Martin | She grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic
family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant |
Cultural formation | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic
, she became a committed... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Strutt | |
Cultural formation | Phebe Gibbes | She seems to have belonged to the middle or lower gentry class and to the Church of England
, Ancestry.co.uk. http://www.ancestry.co.uk. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an English gentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | |
Cultural formation | Catherine Hubback | |
Cultural formation | Isa Craig | Isa grew up poor and Scottish. 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. Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38. 135 Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus. 201 |
Cultural formation | Lady Caroline Lamb | She was confirmed into the Church of England
and despite her family's lax sexual morals, she imbibed from them the habit of taking her religion seriously. She was much distressed by her agnostic husband's attempts... |
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