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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Frances Power Cobbe | |
Cultural formation | Mary Anne Jevons | Like her parents, MAJ
became a committed Unitarian
who attended chapel regularly. 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. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Cultural formation | Anna Swanwick | She remained a Unitarian
all her life, but was open-minded enough to enjoy discussing Unitarianism on equal terms with Catholicism, Judaism, and other forms of religious worship Bruce, Mary Louisa. Anna Swanwick, A Memoir and Recollections 1813-1899. T. F. Unwin, 1903. 155 |
Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | AO
, who had left the Unitarian
church in 1814 and taken the decision to convert to Quakerism, had her application to join the Society of Friends
accepted. Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 1999, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
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 | Hesba Stretton | |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
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