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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | Mary Ackland (later VA
) was received (with her new husband, Richard Turpin
) into the Catholic
Church. Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 233 Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus. 104 |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | |
Cultural formation | Valentine Ackland | As a child, VA
was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Ackland, Valentine. For Sylvia: An Honest Account. Chatto and Windus. 37, 45 Mulford, Wendy. This Narrow Place. Pandora. 233 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Valentine Ackland | The letters are an intimate portrayal of the thirty-nine-year love affair between Warner and Ackland, from their first meeting until Ackland's death. Written when the two women were together and apart, the correspondence is a... |
Cultural formation | Grace Aguilar | In Devon she developed the religious tolerance that distinguishes her writing and helped her to bridge the gap between the Jewish and Christian literary communities. Here she came into contact with provincial English Protestantism, which... |
Cultural formation | Gillian Allnutt | Born into a nominally Anglican
family of the middle or professional class, GA
is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland |
Education | Gillian Allnutt | GA
was educated at convent and grammar schools. Although her family were nominally Anglicans, she and her middle sister were enrolled in a Roman Catholic
convent school inLondon, which their mother had once... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ashbridge | She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker
religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press. 13-14 |
Cultural formation | Daisy Ashford | DA
was born into an English middle-class Roman Catholic
family to middle-aged parents, and brought up in an affectionate home environment. She and her sisters were encouraged to read and write from an early age... |
Cultural formation | Anne Askew | AA
was a white Englishwoman from the gentry class. Though her grandparents were Roman Catholics
, it seems that her father and others in her family favoured the Reformed or Protestant religion. Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press. xvii-xviii |
Cultural formation | Anne Askew | It seems AA
was arrested twice this year, for speaking against the Sacrament. The second time was on 13 June. Wilson, Derek. A Tudor Tapestry: Men, Women and Society in Reformation England. Heinemann. 183 |
Textual Production | Mary Astell | An occasional conformity bill was currently being debated, though it was not until 1711 that the practice of occasional conformity (whereby known Dissenters
or Roman Catholics
circumvent the ban on anyone except Anglicans holding public... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Anna Atkins | With a vulgar father and a mother ignorant of high society, Mary grows up unguided. A coquette and an heiress after her father's death, she secretly cares for the curate John Leigh, but flirts culpably... |
Cultural formation | Beryl Bainbridge | BB
was born into the English lower middle class. She says her family had been quite well off until the slump of 1929, but then they had lost everything. She converted to Catholicism
during her... |
Cultural formation | Hélène Barcynska |
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