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Cultural formation | Mary Penington | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Although SG
was born in Ireland, her parents were English, stemming from propertied and professional families respectively. Memoirist Helen C. Black
described her as coming alike on each side from a race of artistic... |
Cultural formation | Joan Vokins | Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican
. In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves. Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge. 216 |
Cultural formation | Anne Whitehead | She was baptised an Anglican
, and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends
. Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around... |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | VA
was accepted as a member of the Society of Friends
; she remained a Quaker
during the remaining two months of her life. Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus. 293 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | She was brought up in Leeds in an English, radical Quaker
family with Liberal
politics who were committed to humanitarian pursuits. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Marie Stopes | MS
seems also to have reacted against her mother's inculcation of the hellfire beliefs of the particularly harsh brand of Presbyterianism
associated with the Wee Free or Free Church of Scotland
. Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate. 185 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Though not an active member of the Church of England
, SG
did admire the Church and its role in British culture. By her late adulthood, however, she also developed an interest in certain tenets... |
Cultural formation | Mary Leadbeater | |
Cultural formation | Barbara Blaugdone | BB
was converted to Quakerism
by two of the early adherents of the sect, John Audland
and John Camm
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican
religion, she for... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Wright | Born an English middle-class Quaker
, she emigrated, probably as an adolescent, and lived her mature life as an American. |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | As a child, VA
was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus. 37, 45 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 233 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Ormston Ford | The Ford family did not conform to the stricter rules of the Quaker
denomination, and Isabella and her siblings were allowed to dance, paint, play instruments, and sing. The children also developed strong senses of... |
Cultural formation | Ray Strachey |
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