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.
Unitarian Church
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Fuller | Her father, Timothy Fuller
, was also a teacher, then a lawyer and politician. A graduate of Harvard University
, he served in both the Massachusetts senate and house of representatives, and he became a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | HT
met John Stuart Mill
through her Unitarian
minister, William Fox
. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
's father was the sixth William Rathbone
in a Lancashire family which was Quaker
, Unitarian
, Liberal
and philanthropic. For six generations this family had been the epitome of fair trading, plain speaking... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Taylor | Despite their efforts to avoid scandal, HT
's relationship with John Stuart Mill
remained the subject of much gossip. Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. 208 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isabella Neil Harwood | INH
's father, Phillip Harwood
, held many jobs. At the time of her birth he was a minister for a Unitarian
parish. He later worked as a journalist and an editor. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Scott | John Taylor had been a classical tutor in the Daventry Academy
and a minister in the English Presbyterian
church. By the time of his marriage his search for the truth had led him to join... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Hutton | CH
grew up in a Dissenting
family which suffered for its beliefs. She had a number of Quaker friends, to whom she unembarrassedly used thou and thee. She wrote that she almost became a... |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
, who had long ceased to be a Unitarian
and become an agnostic, experienced a gradual change in religious beliefs, which ended in her conversion to Roman Catholicism
. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 3 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. |
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. 17-20 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. |
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. 155 |
Cultural formation | Ann Jebb | |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
was born into an English, professional, well-known, liberal, Unitarian
family. Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications. Levine, Philippa. Feminist Lives in Victorian England: Private Roles and Public Commitment. Basil Blackwell. 16-17 Banks, Olive. The Biographical Dictionary of British Feminists. New York University Press. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan. 36 |
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 | Ann Jebb | At this stage also the Jebbs changed their religion, and became Unitarian
s. John Jebb, indeed, was one of those who were instrumental in opening the first Unitarian chapel, in London. Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol. 7 , pp. 597 - 604, 661. 600 |
Cultural formation | Bessie Rayner Parkes | BRP
described herself as having been born in the very bosom of Puritan England, and fed daily upon the strict letter of the Scripture from aged lips which I regarded with profound reverence. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell. 347 |
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