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Cultural formation | Sarah Davy | SD
, apparently by birth an Englishwoman of the middling ranks and an Anglican
, converted, as one of the most significant actions of her life, to join an Independent
or Baptist
congregation. Some modern... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth B. Lester | |
Cultural formation | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist
mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection
, and an Irish, originally Catholic
, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish... |
Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | FN
experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican
Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | E. Arnot Robertson | Born into the English, presumably white, professional class, she grew up to be highly critical of that class, yet at the same time to continue something of a snob and a racist. These views were... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Beecher Stowe | In 1816, HBS
went to stay for a time with her grandmother in a setting widely different from her birth home. Her father's home is described as being Congregational
and democratic in contrast to the... |
Cultural formation | Barbara Blaugdone | She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hamilton | She grew up Anglican
like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian
, so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Chapone | As a country clergyman's daughter SC
was an Anglican
of the English professional class. Her correspondence with John Wesley
bears witness to the strength and immediacy of her Christian faith, but she did not agree... |
Cultural formation | Judith Drake | She seems to have come from the professional class and was probably a strong Anglican
and monarchist. |
Cultural formation | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
was born to middle-class, presumably white, English parents who were members of the Church of England
. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 38 Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. 216 |
Cultural formation | Constance Lytton | CL
was born into the English ruling class and baptised into the Church ofEngland
. She became a vegetarian in her twenties, for moral and compassionate as well as for health reasons. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann. 2 |
Cultural formation | Eliza Parsons | She was born into the English provincial bourgeois or urban middling ranks, and was presumably white. She was an Anglican
whose staunch commitment to Protestantism, suspicion of other branches of faith, and dogged belief in... |
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 | Anna Eliza Bray |
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