Unitarian Church

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Cultural formation Sarah Wentworth Morton
SWM , born into a comfortable rank in British colonial society, became a proud American. She was proud also of her father's Welsh heritage.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
13, 16, 18
Her Lines to the Mansion of My Ancestors...
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 Margaret Sandbach
The Roscoes were a well-known, presumably white, Unitarian , intellectual family who were well established in the Liverpool area.
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.
Cultural formation Matilda Hays
She was born into the English urban middle class, but very little is known about her early life and education. It seems most likely that she came from white parents and that Joseph Parkes in...
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 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.
while living through her father's successive shifts of belief and witnessing their negative impact on his family and his...
Cultural formation Matilda Hays
MH 's opinions on marriage were similar to those of other radicals and feminists in the Unitarian circles in which she travelled, and in which alternative unions were common.
qtd. in
Gleadle, Kathryn. The Early Feminists. Macmillan, 1995.
42, 112-13
She argued that the...
Cultural formation Florence Nightingale
Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale held strongly to his Unitarian background and was...
Cultural formation Eleanor Rathbone
ER came from a long-established English family settled in Liverpool, with a tradition of industrialism, philanthropy, high culture, Liberalism, and Dissent (either Quaker or Unitarian ).
Cultural formation Mary Hays
MH was a middle-class Englishwoman, born into a Rational Dissenting faith (ancestor of later Unitarianism ) which she found highly compatible with feminist ideas. As a young woman she flirted with deism.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution 1790-1827. Clarendon, 1993.
80-2
In Emma...
Cultural formation William Hazlitt
He came from an English family with Irish connections, of Dissenting or Unitarian faith.
Cultural formation Sara Coleridge
Sara received Anglican baptism sooner after her birth than her elder siblings had, which shows that her father 's Unitarian convictions were slackening. Though little is known about her own early religious beliefs, she was...
Cultural formation Harriet Taylor
Her parents were active Unitarians , whose social circle included many London intellectuals and dissenters.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Rose, Phyllis. Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages. Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
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Cultural formation Beatrix Potter
Her Lancashire forebears had been, as she imagined them, Puritans, Nonjurors, Nonconformists, Dissenters.
Grinstein, Alexander. The Remarkable Beatrix Potter. International Universities Press, 1995.
7
In recent generations they were Unitarian s. Her parents belonged to the London upper middle class, and lived a life of...
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...

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