Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Anglican Church
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Mary Martin | She grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic
family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant |
Cultural formation | Sara Coleridge | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Grace O'Brien | |
Cultural formation | Buchi Emecheta | |
Cultural formation | Dorothea Gerard | Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church
to Roman Catholicism
too early for her to remember it. Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896. 145 Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements. under Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard |
Cultural formation | Anna Mary Howitt | She was born into a family of Quakers
. Her parents, however, were less strict in their observances than their own parents had been, and later strayed into other beliefs. Her mother dressed Anna Mary... |
Cultural formation | Lady Caroline Lamb | She was confirmed into the Church of England
and despite her family's lax sexual morals, she imbibed from them the habit of taking her religion seriously. She was much distressed by her agnostic husband's attempts... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Susan Miles | |
Cultural formation | Mary Countess Cowper | MCC
was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Underhill | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Green | SG
seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican
, yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers
, millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite |
Cultural formation | Naomi Jacob | NJ
was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost... |
Cultural formation | Amy Levy | AL
was an upper-middle-class Jew from a family which had been English for over a century, though they travelled the world for career purposes more freely than most English people. Many reference books still repeat... |
Cultural formation | Ada Cambridge | AC
worshipped in the AnglicanChurch
both as a child and adult, and her early novellas, hymns, and poems emphasize her strong religious faith. Bradstock, Margaret, and Louise Wakeling. Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. Penguin, 1991. 5 |
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