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Cultural formation | Lady Rachel Russell | |
Cultural formation | Emmuska Baroness Orczy | Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic
, she became a committed... |
Cultural formation | Fanny Aikin Kortright | Although she was baptised in the Church of England
(at three years old, in a naval dockyard chapel), she says that throughout her life she was happy to worship in any Christian church, no matter... |
Cultural formation | Grace Lady Mildmay | Born into the English gentry class, Grace Sharington was brought up by her mother in the new Protestant, Anglican
religion, in habits of daily prayer and meditation. She believed that salvation would come not through... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bury | Brought up in the Church of England
, she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter
. She remembered that she was... |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Dacre | |
Cultural formation | Emma Caroline Wood | Though born in Lisbon, she came from a presumably white, Anglican
, English, high-ranking military family, and moved in upper-class circles. Her family were of the squirearchy and their name was derived from the... |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Underhill | EU
returned actively to the Church ofEngland
, in which she had been baptised and confirmed. Fourteen years earlier the move would have been unthinkable, as she could not then accept Anglican teachings. Greene, Dana. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. Crossroad, 1990. 74 |
Cultural formation | Anna Steele | Her heritage was English: her mother
's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | Though not an active member of the Church of England
, SG
did admire the Church and its role in British culture. By her late adulthood, however, she also developed an interest in certain tenets... |
Cultural formation | Lucille Iremonger | She was born a Creole or white West Indian of English, Scottish, and French origins. She made her adult life as an Englishwoman. Her father was an Anglican while her mother was a bad Catholic... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Beverley | Several of her works imitate the form of sermons and express Christian piety (anti-Methodist and probably Anglican
), but this may well be simply part of her stock-in-trade. |
Cultural formation | Willa Cather | WC
was proud to be an American, whose family, Irish in origin, had been in Virginia since colonial times. Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago, 1989. 24 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Freke | |
Cultural formation | Joanna Trollope | JT
grew up as a member of the English professional class and of the Church of England
. |
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