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Cultural formation | Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford | Born into the English peerage, Frances married into its topmost ranks. She was a devout Anglican
all her life, brought up in the Non-juring tradition but latterly embracing an earnest and consistent Evangelicism. She took... |
Cultural formation | Mary Jones | |
Cultural formation | Judith Man | She was by birth an Englishwoman of the professional class dependent on the nobility, politically monarchist and presumably Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Constance Naden | She was baptised into the Church of England
but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist
chapels. CN
later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of... |
Cultural formation | Adrienne Rich | AR
described her subjectivity as split at the root. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 13: 253 |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Richardson | DR
's father also rejected his family's religious nonconformism. While most of them were Baptists, he married as an Anglican and took his family to St Helen's Anglican
Church in Abingdon. Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research. 205-6 Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press. 3-4 |
Cultural formation | Rachel Speght | |
Cultural formation | Louisa Baldwin | The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society. Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler. 20 Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 7-8 |
Cultural formation | Brigid Brophy | |
Cultural formation | Frances Cornford | She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge
's The Daisy Chain, she had... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fell | |
Cultural formation | Mary Kingsley | MK
's family was English and presumably white, but it embodied several internal contradictions. Through her father she belonged to the professional classes, but on her mother's side she sprang from the working class. Her... |
Cultural formation | Eliza Meteyard | EM
came from a professional Anglican
family. She was an advocate of social reform, particularly of educational reform, and of wider roles for women. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research. 1271 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. Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press. |
Cultural formation | Mary Palmer | MP
was born into the English rural professional class on the fringes of the gentry, and was a member of the Church of England
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under Sir Joshua Reynolds |
Cultural formation | Henrietta Battier | HB
's writings demonstrate that she was not only Irish but also an Irish nationalist, a Whig, a Protestant (probably Church of Ireland
) and a sympathiser with freemasonry. Battier, Henrietta. The Protected Fugitives. James Porter, http://Bodleian: 280 i 105. xiv, 120-30, 158ff, 27-31, 163ff, 181-2, 190-2 |
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