Anglican Church

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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
Daughter of a French, Roman Catholic
Cultural formation Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...
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
She felt her unhappiness as a child and young woman was good for...
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
A friend said that her faith was essentially a religion of brightness and of love.
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
her father from a lineage of Evangelical or hot-gospellingAnglican s while her mother's family had been Plymouth Brethren . Together, they administered heavy doses of religion...
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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