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Cultural formation | Algernon Charles Swinburne | ACS
came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham
and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy
). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne
, owned an... |
Cultural formation | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's family belonged to genteel and cultured London society. She was a member of the Church of England
and a conservative in politics. |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | IM
was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland
, had come down in the... |
Cultural formation | Winifred Peck | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Helme | She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism
compared with the Anglican
church. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Joscelin | EJ
's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican
s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism
. |
Cultural formation | Anne Manning | She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge
says her father belonged to the higher professional class: Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897. 211 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Barnard | CB
grew up as an Englishupper-class child, attending the local Anglican Church
. Her family had many servants, including a coachman, a housekeeper, two housemaids, a nurse and a cook. They also owned several properties... |
Cultural formation | Ellen Wood | Ellen Price
was a middle-class Englishwoman from a prominent business family, presumably white, and was brought up an Anglican
; her father had a particular interest in questions of church doctrine. Her early years were... |
Cultural formation | Emily Davies | The household was quite evangelical
, owing to the influence of Emily's father, but she herself leaned in adulthood towards the Christian socialism of F. D. Maurice
. Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press, 1992. 67-8 Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable, 1927. 19, 21, 27 |
Cultural formation | Rachel Speght | |
Cultural formation | Penelope Fitzgerald | PF
was born into an exceptionally high-achieving family within the English professional class which was in the process of shifting from being centred on the Church of England
to combining religion as professional interest with... |
Cultural formation | Anne Ogle | AO
was born to English, presumably white, parents. She was one of a large gentry Northumberland family, and was brought up in the Church of England
. She had eminent admirals among her forebears and... |
Cultural formation | Dorothy Osborne | She was an Anglican
from the English gentry class. |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland
in about 1660. |
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