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Cultural formation | Susanna Parr | After this decisive step the former bickering and negotiation continued. Two women visited her, very likely at the instigation of their husbands, to beg her to stay. After a couple of months, however, this church... |
Cultural formation | Flora Annie Steel | The Webster children were baptised Presbyterian
s, as befitted their Scottish heritage, but attended the local Anglican
parish church. Flora was the only one of the family to be confirmed as an Anglican. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981. 4, 8 |
Cultural formation | Gerard Manley Hopkins | He was born into an English family of comfortable middle-class means, who were devout practising High Church Anglican
s. From at least his student days it seems that Gerard was attracted chiefly if not exclusively... |
Cultural formation | Hannah Kilham | She was brought up as an Anglican
, but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism
(in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism
. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Mead | MM
was born into the American professional class. She decided to become a Christian (an Episcopalian
) when she was nearly nine, as a gesture of rebellion against the freethinking of her parents. Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, p. xii; 540 pp. 104 |
Cultural formation | Anne Audland | Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican
church. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Anne Conway | |
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 | Evelyn Glover | |
Cultural formation | Elinor Glyn | Before the age of six, EG
had renounced orthodox Christianity
; her grandmother had enlisted a clergyman to teach Elinor and her sister the catechism, but both girls rebelled against Christian dogma. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton, 1937. 14-15 Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch, 1994. 17 |
Cultural formation | Felicia Skene | The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland
; FS
's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda | She came from a Welsh entrepreneurial or upper-class family. Her class status (or in this case that of her husband) in 1913 ensured her release from prison, where she had been sent for suffrage activity... |
Cultural formation | Jane Lead | Pordage was an Anglican
clergyman; but he and his wife were radicals. He was said to be much against property, and against relations of magistrates, subjects, husbands, wives, masters, servants, etc. He was one of... |
Cultural formation | Susanna Moodie | |
Cultural formation | Lady Ottoline Morrell | At an Anglican
convent in Cornwall run by the Little Sisters of the Poor
, Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later Morrell)
met Mother Julian
, one of her early mentors. Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992. 32 |
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