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Anthologization | Frances Power Cobbe | |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Rathbone | |
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 | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
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 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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Mary Augusta Ward | She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988. |
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 | Beatrice Webb | Her family were Unitarian
s but her father converted to the Church of England
. She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of... |
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, Eliza Lynn Linton, Edna Lyall, Adeline Sergeant, Charlotte Yonge, Louisa Parr, Katharine S. Macquoid, Mrs Alexander, and Emma Marshall. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897. 211 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/, http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Sandbach | The Roscoes were a well-known, presumably white, Unitarian
, intellectual family who were well established in the Liverpool area. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Cultural formation | Lydia Maria Child | She had a strong sense of her American identity, but in religion she was a seeker who found it hard to feel at home in any denomination. Rejecting the strict Calvinism in which she was... |
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 | 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 |
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