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Cultural formation | Michèle Roberts | She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR
implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing. 163 |
Cultural formation | Gerard Manley Hopkins | |
Cultural formation | Queen Victoria | Princess Alexandrina Victoria
was confirmed an Anglican
at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row. 47 |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Kelty | MAK
thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller
's Memoirs. Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering. 134 |
Cultural formation | L. T. Meade | She was born into the Anglo-Irish middle class and brought up as a member of the Church of Ireland
. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 223 Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode. 229 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Bird | IB
came from an English, professional, upper-middle-class family background, strongly religious in the Evangelical wing of the Church ofEngland
. She grew up in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment. Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press. 3-6 Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray. 1 Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research. 166:30 |
Cultural formation | Mary, Lady Champion de Crespigny | She evidently sprang from the English gentry class within which she also married. Yet her origins and connections are obscure, whereas her husband's family (French Huguenots in origin) was conspicuously well-connected. She was presumably white.... |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic
. He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his... |
Cultural formation | Rumer Godden | For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican
aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Thomas | She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican
in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Eliza Humphry | She was thus a member of the Anglo-Irish professional class, Anglican
in religion and presumably white. |
Cultural formation | Jane Lead | Baptised an Anglican
, Jane was about sixteen at the time of her vocation to the inward and divine life. McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon. 167 |
Cultural formation | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | She writes occasionally like an Anglican
, more often like a Deist or sceptic, and frequently as an anti-Catholic. In politics she was a pro-Robert Walpole
Whig. |
Cultural formation | Pat Arrowsmith | Both her parents were exceedingly religious, Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books. 20 |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw | She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland
member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic
, Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts... |
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