Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930.
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Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | FN
experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican
Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | Annie Tinsley | AT
's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930. 4 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Sewell | She was born into a well-educated, strictly Anglican
family. Both her grandfathers were clergymen and most of her brothers had distinguished careers in public life. Her father's position as a prominent solicitor and land agent... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Ham | She was confirmed in the Church of England
, noticing the formalistic, bureaucratic way this was carried out. Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber, 1945. 50 |
Cultural formation | Maria Abdy | As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican
church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters
. |
Cultural formation | John Dryden | |
Cultural formation | Jane Gardam | Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican
variety). JG
gave up her church-going when she was free to do... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Walker | EW
was born into the rising English urban middle class, but her husband, who spent much time among the upper classes, later wrote that both he and she were obscure Persons of low Degree. Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694. prelims |
Cultural formation | Annie S. Swan | Her father had been impressed as a young man by the Morrisonian revival, a revolt against rigorous Calvinism. He was violently opposed to belief in predestination, and helped build a little Evangelical Union Church which... |
Cultural formation | Emily Hickey | Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King
, or by John Henry Newman
, EH
converted from Anglicanism
to Catholicism
, which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance. qtd. in Dinnis, Enid M. Emily Hickey, Poet, Essayist—Pilgrim. Harding and More, 1927. 43, 41 Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 169 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Cultural formation | Penelope Aubin | Most of what was formerly believed about PA
's background has turned out to be mistaken. She was born out of wedlock to a mother in the English gentry and a father who was not... |
Cultural formation | Angela Brazil | AB
's family belonged to the British middle class, although her father's family was Irish and her mother was half-Scots, half-Spanish. As an adult she had a stronger sense of ruling-class consciousness than her father's... |
Cultural formation | Jane Collier | |
Cultural formation | William Empson | |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was baptised into the Anglican
Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes
, a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. 132 Walker, Dorothea. Muriel Spark. Twayne, 1988. 3 Whittaker, Ruth. The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark. Macmillan, 1982. 25 |
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