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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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
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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
AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican
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.
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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 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.
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Cultural formation Mehetabel Wright
From a family which was financially precarious though middle-class by birth, MW seems to have questioned the religious fervour typical of its other members (at first Anglican , in due course Methodist ), while also...
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.
They were Anglicans with (judging by the positions held by Sophie's father) distinctly Low-Church leanings.

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