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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 | Beatrice Webb | Her family were Unitarian
s but her father converted to the Church of England
. She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of... |
Cultural formation | Melesina Trench | She was born into the Anglo-Irish upper middle class, with dignitaries in the Church of Ireland
on both sides of her family, whose origin was French Huguenot. |
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 | Frances Sheridan | FS
was born a middle-class Anglican
Irishwoman (though her father was English, and after her death her grand-daughter-biographer chose to think of her as English). Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35. 29 |
Cultural formation | Anne Audland | Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican
church. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Anne Conway | |
Cultural formation | Margiad Evans | ME
wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her... |
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 | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Cultural formation | Edith Templeton | Both Edith's parents were from wealthy, land-owning families. She was educated and influenced by European aesthetics, and prides herself on her cosmopolitanism. Her several languages include English, German, and French; her first was Czech. She... |
Cultural formation | Gladys Henrietta Schütze | While working for the Daily HeraldGHS
developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard
, who was one influence towards her conversion to... |
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 | Mehetabel Wright | |
Cultural formation | Sophie Veitch | The Veitch family were presumably white, and belonged to the Scottish gentry, with male members holding professional positions. 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. Burke, John. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke’s Peerage. |
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