Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
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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 |
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. |
Cultural formation | Matilda Hays | |
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 | |
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 |
Cultural formation | William Hazlitt | He came from an English family with Irish connections, of Dissenting or Unitarian
faith. |
Cultural formation | Sara Coleridge | |
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. 101 |
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 |
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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