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.
Anglican Church
Connections
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Anthologization | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes
included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH
to Henry Turberville
on choosing the Anglican
over... |
Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. |
Characters | Lucas Malet | The class difference between this pair is figured in the religion of their respective fathers, which each has rejected. Colthurst's father was a fashionable preacher who regularly packed his Anglican
church; Jenny's is an ex-seaman... |
Cultural formation | Maria Grey | MG
's family was presumably white; they were upper-middle-class English people, though her mother's family had been Scottish and her father descended from French Huguenot ancestry. Maria grew up influenced to some degree by Whig... |
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 | 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 | Sarah Trimmer | Born into the English professional class, she was a fevent Anglican
, godly from her childhood onwards. Feminist Companion Archive. |
Cultural formation | Clara Balfour | Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England
, she later converted and joined the Baptists
with the rest of her family in 1840. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | William Morris | He came from a white, English, and Anglican
family. His father was a successful financier who brought the family up in great comfort at their Essex mansion. The patriarch's death in 1847 left the Morris... |
Cultural formation | Augusta Webster | She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was... |
Cultural formation | Rhoda Broughton | |
Cultural formation | Anna Williams | When AW
felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England
's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up. Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press. 4:187 |
Cultural formation | Mary Harcourt | Born into the upper ranks of the English gentry and into the Church of England
, presumably white, she entered into metropolitan court society with her first marriage and reached the fringes of the nobility... |
Cultural formation | Pandita Ramabai | Once she was established in England, with the Anglican sisterhood
at Wantage in Berkshire, PR
's doubts about Hinduism grew, and after her companion Bhagat committed suicide she converted to join the Church of England
. |
Cultural formation | Maria Jane Jewsbury | The Jewsbury family was middle-class, English, and white. MJJ
was a practising member of the Church of England
. Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol. 66 , No. 2, The Library, pp. 177-03. 180 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin. 38 Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press. 216 |
Timeline
1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...
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1527
A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer
, wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus
, whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
November 1534: The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch,...
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November 1534
The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch, not the Pope
, head of the Church of England.
October 1536: The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion...
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October 1536
The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion against Henry VIII
's religious reforms and dissolution of monasteries and convents (in effect, against the birth of the Church of England
), spread across the...
Late 1552: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury...
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Late 1552
Thomas Cranmer
, Archbishop of Canterbury under Edward VI
, produced an Anglican
revised Book of Common Prayer.
1559: Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth...
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1559
Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth I
sought to establish the English Church under her headship; Thomas Cranmer
's Prayer Book of 1552 became the official Book of Common Prayer.
1563: Convocation of the Church of England drew...
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1563
Convocation of the Church of England
drew up the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, as a statement of what it is necessary for an Anglican to believe.
August 1598: Full-scale revolt against English rule (that...
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August 1598
Full-scale revolt against English rule (that is, rule over the Roman Catholic Church
majority by a newly-settled Anglican
elite) broke out in Ireland in the form of Tyrone's Rebellion, led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
.
16 January 1604: One year into his reign in England, King...
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16 January 1604
One year into his reign in England, King James I
received a petitionthat there might bee a newe translation of the Bible to improve on existing, imperfect English versions.
2 May 1611: A committee of bishops completed and issued...
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2 May 1611
A committee of bishops
completed and issued the English Bibletranslation generally called either the King James Bible (in North America) or the Authorised Version (in Britain).
April 1637: Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly...
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April 1637
Alexander Henderson
of Leuchars, a godly leader of the Scottish Kirk
, held a secret meeting with a group of Edinburgh matrons to enlist their aid in resistance against the imposition of the new (...
23 July 1637: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer was used...
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23 July 1637
The AnglicanBook of Common Prayer was used for the first time, according to Charles I
's order, at St Giles's Church in Edinburgh, the centre of the Scottish (Presbyterian
) Church.
28 February 1638: At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen...
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28 February 1638
At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen opposed to Charles I
's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish (Presbyterian
) Church signed a National Covenant against such innovations: in...
27 March-June 1639: Charles I made war on the Scottish Covenanters,...
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27 March-June 1639
20 August 1640: The Scots (provoked by Charles I's imposition...
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20 August 1640
The Scots (provoked by Charles I
's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish Presbyterian
Church in 1637) invaded England, and for the second time in eighteen months their monarch marched against them.
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