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Cultural formation | Emily Brontë | Of Irish and English descent, Emily was raised in the Church of England
as the daughter of a clergyman. Almost nothing is known directly of her personality and opinions; one biographer characterizes her as secretive... |
Cultural formation | Emily Faithfull | EF
came from an upper-middle-class, Anglican
family. While her childhood was apparently happy, she chafed at the restrictions imposed by her father, brothers, and other figures of authority, Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany. 14 |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland
in about 1660. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Hamilton King | Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism
... |
Cultural formation | Louisa Anne Meredith | LAM
had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English... |
Cultural formation | Sarah, Lady Piers | SLP
was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican
, a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Anna Sewell | After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS
was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker
and Rousseauvian
values... |
Cultural formation | Beatrice Webb | Beatrice Potter (later BW
) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity
in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Sarah Gooch | Despite her clear statement of her father's Jewish ethnicity (and his Portuguese national heritage: she calls herself the daughter of a Portugueze), Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Wanderings of the Imagination. B. Crosby. 1: 9 |
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 | 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 | Dorothy Leigh | |
Cultural formation | Pandita Ramabai | While living with the Anglican sisterhood
at Wantage inBerkshire, PR
was baptised into the Church ofEngland
by William Butler
, together with her daughter, Manorama. She took the name Mary Rama. Blumhofer, Edith L. “From India’s Coral Strand: Pandita Ramabai and U. S. Support for Foreign Missions”. The Foreign Mission Enterprise at Home, edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker, University of Alamaba Press, pp. 152-70. 155-6 Adhav, Shamsundar Manohar. Pandita Ramabai. Christian Literature Society. x Maiorani, Arianna. “Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922)”. Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present, edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp, Continuum, pp. 113-25. 116 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Smith | She was confirmed in the Church ofEngland
in December 1791, and a letter written her by Henrietta Maria Bowdler
on that occasion shows how seriously this was taken both as a spiritual experience and as... |
Cultural formation | Mary Frances Billington | English by birth and presumably white, she was raised in the Church of England
, a religious upbringing that reflected her father's and grandfather's occupations as Church of England clergymen. Tuson, Penelope. The Queen’s Daughters: An Anthology of Victorian Feminist Writings on India, 1857-1900. Ithaca Press, http://University of Waterloo - Porter. 295 |
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