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Cultural formation | Dorothy L. Sayers | James Brabazon
, her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 275 |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | AB
was confirmed an Anglican
in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism
, but the writing of the Oxford Movement
convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After... |
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 | Annie Tinsley | AT
's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner. 4 |
Cultural formation | Barbara Cartland | |
Cultural formation | Hannah More | HM
had almost no contact with the Methodists, but despite her strong commitment to the Church of England
she was broadly tolerant of classical Nonconformity
. During the Blagdon controversy she admitted in a letter... |
Cultural formation | Jane Warton | JW
was born into the English middle class and the established
Church. The careers of her male relatives suggest the upper middle class, while her own employment suggests the lower middle class. |
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 | Kate Parry Frye | Kate Parry Frye, suffrage organizer, playwright, and prolific diarist, was English (with some Scottish antecedents), middle-class, and presumably white. She was a conventional Anglican
church-goer, but was excited after the war by the preaching of... |
Cultural formation | C. E. Plumptre | Little is known about her background. Her family, however, was old-established, presumably white, certainly English, Anglican
, and upper-middle-class. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. 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 | Fleur Adcock | This Anglican
, of a kind Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press. 44 |
Cultural formation | Percy Bysshe Shelley | He was born into a family of the English country gentry, Foxite Whigs but without Percy's radical fire. They were conventionally practising Anglican
s and were outraged at his early espousal of atheism. |
Cultural formation | Frances Trollope | FT
's opinion that church services should not be sensational foreshadows her famously strong reaction to what she perceived as the uncouth manners of Americans. One of her biographers writes that she was always specially... |
Cultural formation | Agatha Christie | |
Cultural formation | Eliza Dunlop | She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican
church. Though she spent most of her adult... |
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