Shuttleton, David. “Mary Chandler’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Description of Bath</span> (1733): the poetic topographies of an Augustan tradeswoman”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
7
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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Cairns | EC
was a Dissenter
and apparently a Covenanter
(that is, one of those who opposed episcopacy in Scotland). She carefully charts her religious development from childhood: her early delight in God's creation, her awe in... |
Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church
, JHN
began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics
and Dissenters
led them to suppose that the... |
Cultural formation | Mary Chandler | MC
belonged to the English middle class; her family background was both Old Dissent
and Old Whig (which meant that during the Civil War they had been anti-royalist). Shuttleton, David. “Mary Chandler’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Description of Bath</span> (1733): the poetic topographies of an Augustan tradeswoman”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 3, pp. 447-67. 451 |
Cultural formation | Frances Notley | FN
's christening in the Church of England is listed as having taken place at Old St Pancras Church in London on 24 January 1843. If there is no mistake in this record, her being... |
Cultural formation | Mary Maria Colling | Baptised a Congregationalist
, that is in contemporary terms a Dissenter
, MMC
later became a practising Anglican
. She was deeply religious. “FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bray, Anna Eliza, and Mary Maria Colling. “Letters to Robert Southey”. Fables and Other Pieces in Verse by M.M. Colling, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, pp. 1-85. 17 An Independent church in England is normally Congregational, though the Wesleyan Independent sect also existed. Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. J. M. Dent. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Oliphant | Her family were Dissenters
. When Margaret was fifteen the Free Church of Scotland
split from its parent body; her parents espoused the rigidly opinionated new sect. |
Cultural formation | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Both parents came from Dissenting
backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist
. She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican
church, chose from an... |
Cultural formation | Amelia Opie | She came from a cultured, financially comfortable middle-class but Unitarian
English family. Her class status meant that even after she converted from Dissent
to Quakerism
, Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. Adeline Mowbray, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, p. i - xxix. xxxviii |
Cultural formation | Margiad Evans | ME
wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Savage | SS
was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity
in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in the... |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Tatlock | She was a middle-class Englishwoman, fervently Evangelical and in sympathy with Dissenters
, who nevertheless continued to attend or at least embrace the sacraments of the Anglican church
. Ashfield, Andrew. Email to Isobel Grundy about Eleanor Tatlock. Tatlock, Eleanor. Poems. S. Burton. 2: 278 |
Cultural formation | Celia Fiennes | CF
's family were upper-class, linked to the nobility: distinguished anti-monarchists and dissenters
. She took her religion seriously: at the sight of a monument to Fulke Greville
which boasted his friendship with Sir Philip Sidney |
Cultural formation | Mary Taylor | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Gilding | |
Cultural formation | Dora Greenwell | Presumably white, DG
was born into an upper-middle class family that was then comfortably off, but was financially devastated several years after her birth. Her religious allegiances present some confusion. She was brought up as... |
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