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Unitarian Church
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Ann Hawkshaw | As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH
was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural... |
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 |
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. |
Cultural formation | Isabella Neil Harwood | |
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 | 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 | Elizabeth Gaskell | |
Textual Features | Monica Furlong | MF
's contributors here, both men and women, look back at childhoods in which belief and observance were integral parts. They include those whose remembered experience was gleaned within different faiths: Anglican
, Roman Catholic |
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... |
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 |
Literary responses | George Eliot | The translator's work was warmly praised by Charles Wicksteed
in the Prospective Review (a vehicle for Unitarian
opinion). Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 62-3 |
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 | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Cultural formation | Lucie Duff Gordon | |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Caroline Frances Cornwallis | The letters in Christian Sects (which is headed by three quotations, one of them from St John's Gospel) are said to have been exchanged between one of the editors of the Small Books, and... |
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