Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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Cultural formation | May Sinclair | |
Cultural formation | Mary Louisa Molesworth | Though she grew up in England, MLM
's Scottish roots, on both sides of the family, were important to her. Her parents were, however, Calvinist Presbyterian
s, and this faith, which she later regarded as... |
Cultural formation | Frances Reynolds | She was born into an English west-country professional or just-gentry family, and was a devout Anglican
, who cared about whether or not her friends went to church and disapproved of her brother Joshua painting... |
Cultural formation | Frances Burney | FB
was serious about her Anglican
faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism
, which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic. Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958. 11 Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988. 23 |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | |
Cultural formation | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic
identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church
and she was herself baptised as an Anglican. |
Cultural formation | Constantia Grierson | Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish qtd. in Elias, A. C., Jr. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol. 2 , 1987, pp. 33-56. 36 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Grierson |
Cultural formation | Harriett Mozley | Harriett remained committed to the Church of England
throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman
converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Tollet | |
Cultural formation | Mary Linskill | Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends
and in local trade. Quinlan, David, and Arthur Frederick Humble. Mary Linskill: The Whitby Novelist. Horne and Son, 1969. 5-6 |
Cultural formation | Mary Sewell | Both of MS
's parents were members of the Society of Friends
, as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England
after flirting... |
Cultural formation | Phyllis Bentley | Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans
and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her... |
Cultural formation | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In religion RNC
was an earnest HighAnglican
. Her friend Helen Marion Burnside
said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing. qtd. in Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Georgiana Cavendish Duchess of Devonshire | Her membership by birth in the English nobility gave her a relative imperviousness to public opinion. She was a believing Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Pamela Frankau |
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