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, No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21. Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | John Millington Synge | Born into the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy (of a family with close ties on both sides to the Anglican, that is Protestant, Church ofIreland
), JMS
grew up in his mother's atmosphere of Calvinistic fervour. He... |
Cultural formation | Naomi Royde-Smith | Born into the professional middle class, NRS
had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins. Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol. 218 , No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21. |
Cultural formation | Sarah Wentworth Morton | SWM
, born into a comfortable rank in British colonial society, became a proud American. She was proud also of her father's Welsh heritage. Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931. 13, 16, 18 |
Cultural formation | Annabella Plumptre | AP
was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and her sister Anne
, she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism
. Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix. viii and n4 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hamilton | She grew up Anglican
like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian
, so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her... |
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 | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic
priest, but found it unsatisfying. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 222 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 24 |
Cultural formation | Samuel Beckett | The Becketts were of middle-class, solidly protestant, Anglo-Irish stock. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bair, Deirdre. Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Vintage, 1990. 4-5 |
Cultural formation | Catharine Macaulay | |
Cultural formation | Maria Callcott | |
Cultural formation | Rachel Speght | |
Cultural formation | Sarah Davy | SD
, apparently by birth an Englishwoman of the middling ranks and an Anglican
, converted, as one of the most significant actions of her life, to join an Independent
or Baptist
congregation. Some modern... |
Cultural formation | Margaret Forster | As a child she knelt at bedtime to say her prayers: she loved praying and did it with great intensity. After the regulation Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, she would talk to Jesus (rather than... |
Cultural formation | John Henry Newman | Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church
, JHN
began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics
and Dissenters
led them to suppose that the... |
Cultural formation | Susan Hill |
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