Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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politics | Emily Davies | The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade
in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Davy | SD
, apparently by birth an Englishwoman of the middling ranks and an Anglican
, converted, as one of the most significant actions of her life, to join an Independent
or Baptist
congregation. Some modern... |
Cultural formation | Mary Davys | MD
may have come from the lower classes. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, p. ix - xlix. xii |
Cultural formation | E. M. Delafield | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
Cultural formation | Ethel M. Dell | EMD
was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant
and her father a Catholic
who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD
adopted... |
Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | She was baptised in the Church of England
but by 1912, MAD
had converted to Catholicism
. Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing. 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. |
Cultural formation | E. A. Dillwyn | |
Family and Intimate relationships | E. A. Dillwyn | EAD
's father, Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn
, owned a spelter works, Dillwyn and Co.
, in Llansamlet, a little to the north of Swansea. He later entered into a business partnership with William Siemens |
Cultural formation | Benjamin Disraeli | In his political career and the high office which he attained, BD
did something unprecedented in England for someone of his Jewish ethnicity. By the early twenty-first century he remained Britain's only Jewish Prime Minister... |
Cultural formation | Anne Docwra | Born into an English gentry family, AD
was an Anglican
during the Interregnum, when Anglicans were persecuted and reduced to holding their services in field conventicles. Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed. 21 |
Textual Production | Anne Docwra | Docwra wrote to rebuke Bugg
, who had written against her that April a tirade entitled Jezebel Withstood, and Her Daughter Anne Dockwra, Publickly Reprov'd. He incorporated this ad feminam attack in two works... |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
sealed his conversion from Roman Catholicism
(probably long since complete) by being ordained a priest of the Church of England
at St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was later to become Dean. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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... |
politics | Lady Eleanor Douglas | In Lichfield, with some local women, Susan Walker
and Marie Noble
, LED
discussed resistance to Laud
's current reforms of the Church of England
. At Lichfield Cathedral the altar had been moved away... |
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