Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Anglican Church
Connections
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Cultural formation | Harriet Hamilton King | Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism
... |
Cultural formation | Louisa Anne Meredith | LAM
had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English... |
Cultural formation | Joanna Trollope | JT
grew up as a member of the English professional class and of the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Felicia Skene | The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland
; FS
's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement
. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | She came from a Welsh entrepreneurial or upper-class family. Her class status (or in this case that of her husband) in 1913 ensured her release from prison, where she had been sent for suffrage activity... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bentley | She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans
. |
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 | Anne Francis | |
Cultural formation | Ann Gomersall | AG
was baptised in the Church of England
at Portsmouth. Her parents were unlikely to have omitted this sacrament when she was little if they were Anglicans; it seems therefore that she probably converted... |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutchinson | She grew up in the Puritan
part of the Anglican
faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist
s, and later still of the Presbyterian
s or Independents
. She then... |
Cultural formation | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
came from a family well-established among England's upper-middle-class cultural elite, and regarded herself as English. She descended on her mother's side from one of New Hampshire's early lieutenant-governors, and on her father's from European... |
Cultural formation | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She came from an English, presumably white, middle-class, Anglican
family. As an adult she became an agnostic, and also entertained an interest in spiritualism. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | She belonged to the English professional class, and was presumably white and a member of the Church of England
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins |
Cultural formation | William Shakespeare | Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS
subscribed to the Church of England
or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism
. Supporters of the Catholic... |
Cultural formation | Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny | FNBA
belonged to the English upper class, and to a network of relations who held or strove for power in the state. Judging by the known political allegiance of her eldest brother, she would have... |
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