Anglican Church

Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters . The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...

Her upbringing in a professional, Tory, English family was surprisingly unconventional: she was encouraged to roam freely with her brother, to read widely . . . and forbidden to wear restrictive clothing. Although her father...

HM had almost no contact with the Methodists, but despite her strong commitment to the Church of England she was broadly tolerant of classical Nonconformity . During the Blagdon controversy she admitted in a letter...

Hester Ley was born into a large and upwardly-mobile English gentry family whose religion was Anglican and whose menfolk were expected to serve (and do well for themselves) in public life: elected to parliament, loyal...

Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...

Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church , EG was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of...

EJ was a lifelong Londoner, a High Tory, and an Anglican . As a printer for fifty years, she had some standing in the urban middle class.

Growing up Anglican , she was intensely or excessively religious as an adolescent. Her beliefs began to alter when her reading led her to perceive a parallel between the stories of the Bible and those...

CBR was brought up Anglican and briefly educated at an Anglican boarding school.

VF belonged to a well-established family with high social connections. Her paternal heritage reportedly stretched back to the best English, Scottish, and French blood. Her grandparents and parents were brought up in the Anglican

She came of ecclesiastical families on both sides. Her male relations had risen high in the Church, and were gentry with links to the aristocracy. But despite their connections, her father's death ensured that she...

LRR was born to an English father and French mother, both of the nobility. She was a devout Anglican .

Irish in origin, the Harkness family belonged to a long line of Anglican clergymen. They had aristocratic connections—through MH 's paternal grandfather's marriage—reaching back to the time of Edward I, although they were not particularly...

Leaving Olney as a widow, JJ wrote with an evident sense of moral righteousness of her conservative resistance to AnglicanEvangelicalism . I made a strong proof of my Courage, made a Bold Stand against...

JCM was confirmed in the Church of England by Thomas Secker , probably at St James's, Piccadilly, having apparently not received this sacrament as a child.