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Cultural formation | Alice Meynell | Alice Thompson (later AM
) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Trimmer | Born into the English professional class, she was a fevent Anglican
, godly from her childhood onwards. |
Cultural formation | Penelope Aubin | Most of what was formerly believed about PA
's background has turned out to be mistaken. She was born out of wedlock to a mother in the English gentry and a father who was not... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Goudge | She belonged to the Church of England
, which was a great influence on her life. Goudge, Elizabeth. The Joy of the Snow. Hodder and Stoughton, 1974. 244 |
Cultural formation | Angela Brazil | AB
's family belonged to the British middle class, although her father's family was Irish and her mother was half-Scots, half-Spanish. As an adult she had a stronger sense of ruling-class consciousness than her father's... |
Cultural formation | Jane Collier | |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | MF
was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. qtd. in 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, 1990. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Cultural formation | William Empson | |
Cultural formation | Flora Thompson | |
Cultural formation | E. J. Scovell | Born into the English middle classes, EJS
was brought up an Anglican
but after an interim period as a pantheist settled down as an an agnostic. qtd. in Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ham | She was confirmed in the Church of England
, noticing the formalistic, bureaucratic way this was carried out. Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945. 50 |
Cultural formation | John Bunyan | JB
's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch
and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin, 1666. 5 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an Englishgentry 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 her... |
Cultural formation | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
was born to middle-class, presumably white, English parents who were members of the Church of England
. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 38 Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996. 216 |
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