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Anglican Church
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Cultural formation | Clara Balfour | Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England
, she later converted and joined the Baptists
with the rest of her family in 1840. |
Cultural formation | Rhoda Broughton | |
Cultural formation | Rosamund Marriott Watson | She came from an English, presumably white, middle-class, Anglican
family. As an adult she became an agnostic, and also entertained an interest in spiritualism. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 240 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins | She belonged to the English professional class, and was presumably white and a member of the Church of England
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins |
Cultural formation | Ann Gomersall | AG
was baptised in the Church of England
at Portsmouth. Her parents were unlikely to have omitted this sacrament when she was little if they were Anglicans; it seems therefore that she probably converted... |
Cultural formation | William Shakespeare | Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS
subscribed to the Church of England
or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism
. Supporters of the Catholic... |
Cultural formation | Lucy Hutchinson | She grew up in the Puritan
part of the Anglican
faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist
s, and later still of the Presbyterian
s or Independents
. She then... |
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 | Agnes Beaumont | AB
chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists
. Her family belonged to the Church of England
(though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself). |
Cultural formation | Mary Caesar | |
Cultural formation | Mary Davys | MD
may have come from the lower classes. Bowden, Martha F., and Mary Davys. “Introduction”. The Reform’d Coquet; or, Memoirs of Amoranda; Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady; and, The Accomplish’d Rake; or, Modern Fine Gentleman, University Press of Kentucky, 1999, p. ix - xlix. xii |
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, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. 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. |
Cultural formation | Mary Bosanquet Fletcher | The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry... |
Cultural formation | John Millington Synge | Born into the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy (of a family with close ties on both sides to the Anglican, that is Protestant, Church ofIreland
), JMS
grew up in his mother's atmosphere of Calvinistic fervour. He... |
Cultural formation | Anna Maria Hall | Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican
Church. AMH
encountered many practising Catholic
s while living with her maternal step-grandfather
, who often entertained... |
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