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 | Maria Abdy | As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican
church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters
. |
Cultural formation | Sarah Austin | SA
came from a presumably white, professional, English Liberal background; hers was one of the most prominent dissenting
families in Norwich, known for their talent and energy and their many contributions to .... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | She grew up in great privilege and luxury, since her mother's wealth and father's income from Jamaican plantations allowed the family to live according to their rank as English gentry, particularly in her earlier years... |
Author summary | Elizabeth Bury | EB
was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican
, which after the Restoration became Dissenting
) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and... |
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Mary Gawthorpe | |
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... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Heyrick | She was born a Dissenter
and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian
church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley
visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker
. Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers. 61 Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott. 121 |
Textual Features | Catherine Hubback | The later dangers which Agnes faces are chiefly theological: she moves towards Dissent
and specifically Presbyterianism
, but returns to the Church of England
, saved in part by a copy of The Christian Year... |
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