Walker, Shirley. “’Wild and Wilful’ Women: Caroline Leakey and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Broad Arrow</span>”;. A Bright and Fiery Troop, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin Books Australia, pp. 85-99.
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Cultural formation | Ann Gomersall | AG
appears to have come from the English middle class, perhaps the urban middle class, and to have been, at least late in life, a pious and active Christian. Her works show her to be... |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutton | She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of... |
Cultural formation | Caroline Leakey | CL
was a member of a pious middle-class evangelical Anglican
family who were presumably white and of English descent. She herself was a devoted Christian who participated in evangelical and missionary endeavours. Walker, Shirley. “’Wild and Wilful’ Women: Caroline Leakey and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Broad Arrow</span>”;. A Bright and Fiery Troop, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin Books Australia, pp. 85-99. 85 Pike, Douglas, editor. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. 5 |
Cultural formation | L. S. Bevington | She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker
roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The... |
Cultural formation | Lady Jane Cavendish | LJC
was born to privilege and her father's career took her into the highest ranks of English society. He professed himself a devout member of the Church of England (into which his children followed him)... |
Cultural formation | Flora Shaw | FS
was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's... |
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 | Frances Trollope | FT
belonged to an English professional family and was likely white; her mother came from a well-to-do Derbyshire family, and her father, the son of a Bristol saddler, was an Anglican
clergyman. Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 4 |
Cultural formation | Anna Maria Hall | A devout Christian
, AMH
was also a firm believer in the phenomenon of spiritualism. Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Hall, Samuel Carter. Retrospect of a Long Life: From 1815 to 1883. D. Appleton. 579 |
Cultural formation | Anna Wheeler | The daughter of a radical Anglican
, AW
was herself a materialist and thus also an atheist. 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. Taylor, Barbara. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Virago. 70 |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism
: a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 53 |
Cultural formation | Caroline Bowles | She was a strong proponent of the Anglican Church
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Cultural formation | Jean Rhys | JR
was at one time attracted to Catholicism
, mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch. 77 |
Cultural formation | Lady Anne Clifford | As a peer's daughter who had no brother, LAC
was highly privileged. She writes of her religion (Anglican
) as an important part of her education. Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing. 1, 221 Clifford, Lady Anne. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents. Editor Gilson, Julius Parnell, Roxburghe Club. 28 |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was baptised into the Anglican
Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes
, a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 132 Walker, Dorothea. Muriel Spark. Twayne. 3 Whittaker, Ruth. The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark. Macmillan. 25 |
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