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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.
Feminist Companion Archive.
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
JC came from an intellectually-minded, English, Anglican , presumably white family of the professional class.
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.
She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...
Cultural formation Elizabeth B. Lester
From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.
Garside, Peter. “Mrs. Ross and Elizabeth B. Lester: New Attributions”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
2
, June 1998.
Cultural formation William Empson
Born into the Yorkshire gentry class and the Anglican faith, WE lived his whole life as a Bohemian as well as an academic, and became known in middle age for a combative anti-Christian stance.
Cultural formation Flora Thompson
Although strongly influenced by her Methodist grandfather, FT grew up in the Anglican Church. She remained an Anglican even though she was attracted to the Catholic Church in later life.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
71, 133
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/.
In a poem entitled Agnostic she pointed out that...
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
but he later saw this...
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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