qtd. in
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
68
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Anthologization | Frances Power Cobbe | |
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 | 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 | Anne Manning | She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge
says her father belonged to the higher professional class: Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897. 211 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Neil Harwood | Not much is known about INH
's early life or her life beyond her writing, except that she was born to Scottish and English parents of the professional class, who were Unitarians
. As Richard Garnett |
Cultural formation | Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon | She was not baptised, since her father regarded the ceremony as a mere unmeaning shibboleth. Her radical and Unitarian
family background encouraged her bent towards feminism and educational reform. She herself seems to have been... |
Cultural formation | Anne Marsh | AM
was born into a family of the English gentry—though her father was half-Scots and originated from a much lower class. He and his family had been only two years at Talke at the time... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Cultural formation | Mary Carpenter | She belonged to the English middle class; her parents were members of the intellectual aristrocracy of English puritanism, as her father was a dissenting Unitarian
minister. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Harriet Martineau | The English Martineaus came from French Huguenot stock: the first member of the family (according to HM
herself) had settled in Norwich in 1688. She made a point, in a correction to the information provided... |
Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were connected to the Unitarian
tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood
as well as to the largely Anglican
evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect
centred close to their home in South London... |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
became a Unitarian
like John Taylor
before she married him. It has been said that she followed him again in his further change of religious affiliation, becoming a Quaker
in 1790. |
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