qtd. in
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Anthologization | Frances Power Cobbe | |
Cultural formation | Hesba Stretton | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Flower Adams | Her devout Unitarian
upbringing manifested itself in her writing, most explicitly in her hymns. Stephenson, Harold William. The Author of Nearer, My God, to Thee (Sarah Flower Adams). Lindsey Press, 1922. 17-20 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols. |
Cultural formation | Lucy Toulmin Smith | LTS
's family had a long history of involvement in the UnitarianChurch
. Her great-great-grandfather, Joshua Toulmin
, was a significant figure in the formation of the English Unitarian Church as a distinct denomination, and... |
Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian
English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent
to Quakerism
, Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
Cultural formation | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | Spiritualists like ADLP
's uncle Jacob Dixon
believed that it was possible to contact the dead through mediums. Her many experiences with séances throughout her life convinced her that this was true, including one in... |
Cultural formation | T. S. Eliot | His family were New Englanders for generations back on both sides, and were rich in connections with men of letters. His paternal grandfather was a Unitarian
and an academic. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Mary Sewell | Both of MS
's parents were members of the Society of Friends
, as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England
after flirting... |
Cultural formation | Eva Gore-Booth | EGB
came from a Protestant family but broke with that tradition in favour of many other spiritual pursuits. Biographer Gifford Lewis
writes: even before her teens she had become, in Christian terms, godless and her... |
Cultural formation | Edna Lyall | Her family had been Roman Catholic
back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England. Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co., 1904. 3 |
Cultural formation | Catharine Maria Sedgwick | Born into a wealthy upper-class American family, she was for several years a member of Dr Mason's Congregationalist Church
. She abandoned this denomination, however, in 1821 when she followed her dying father's example, and... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ham | EH
lived to the age of about thirty without questioning her religion, or those parts of the Bible which she could understand. Meeting with earnest Evangelicals would leave her at a loss what to think... |
Cultural formation | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | In 1878 she returned to organized religion, joining a Unitarian Fellowship. Elizabeth Cazden
believes that ABB
was drawn to the Unitarian church
because it envisioned a benevolent God and defended human freedom and moral reasoning. Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983. 190 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Fuller | MF
's Unitarian
ism introduced her to a vibrant intellectual community in Cambridge, and at a fairly young age she became a central figure in a social circle that included George Ripley
, William Henry Channing |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters. Though Anna Seward
said they were Anglicans |
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