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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Cultural formation | Laurence Hope | Adela Cory's English parents were living in India at the time of her birth, as did many Britons throughout the period of British rule over the sub-continent. Her mother's family heritage was Irish. Adela was... |
Cultural formation | Annie Keary | Having found she could live with Broad Church
theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists... |
Cultural formation | Mary Masters | |
Cultural formation | Margaret Bryan | |
Cultural formation | Mary Prince | The Methodist Church
had broken away from the Church of England
in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean. |
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 | Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe | She also became increasingly preoccupied with the Evangelical movement within the Church ofEngland
. Her continuing interest in UpperCanada included funding Anglican missionary work there and paying for the English university education of several promising... |
Cultural formation | Catharine Trotter | While a young woman CT
converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism
, the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian
religion were of no importance... |
Cultural formation | Agnes Giberne | AG
, a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England
, in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by... |
Cultural formation | Sophia Hume | SH
, religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism
and joined the Society of Friends
. |
Cultural formation | Anna Margaretta Larpent | AML
was born in the English gentry or professional class, with close connections to Hungarian nobility. In religion she was a pious, serious-minded Anglican
. Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press. 379 |
Cultural formation | Margaret Minifie | The Minifies had bought Fairwater House (now rebuilt and forming part of Taunton School
) in the early eighteenth century. They belonged to the Church of England
and to the gentry or professional class. Margaret... |
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. 5 |
Cultural formation | Anne Ridler | AR
was born into the English professional class. As a baby and small child she always had a nurse-maid. Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, p. 240 pp. 9 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Delaval | ED
possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group... |
Timeline
April 1886: Daybreak, an illustrated magazine of the...
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April 1886
Daybreak, an illustrated magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society
, began monthly publication in London.
1891: The White Cross League, a chastity society...
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1891
The White Cross League
, a chastity society founded in 1883, merged with the Anglican ChurchChurch of England Purity Society
and was henceforth know as the White Cross Society.
1894: The Case for Disestablishment was published...
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1894
The Case for Disestablishment was published by the Liberation Society
.
1896: The Church of England formed the Church Reform...
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1896
The Church of England
formed the Church Reform League
.
1897: The Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican...
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1897
The Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican Church
(an order of ministry lower than that of priests) was finally recognized by the Lambeth Conference
of Anglican bishops.
1903: The Representative Church Council was created...
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1903
The Representative Church Council
was created to advocate for the Church of England
's legislative autonomy from Parliament.
20 April 1904: The Church of Ireland, responding to maltreatment...
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20 April 1904
The Church of Ireland
, responding to maltreatment of the Jewish community of Limerick, complained to the British government of the persecution of Protestants and Jews in Ireland.
January 1912: The Church League for Women's Suffrage began...
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January 1912
The Church League for Women's Suffrage began monthly publication in London.
June 1917: The Friendly Leaves ended publication in...
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June 1917
The Friendly Leaves ended publication in London.
June 1917: The Friendly Work ceased publication in ...
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June 1917
The Friendly Work ceased publication in London.
July 1917: GFS Magazine, devoted to the moral welfare...
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July 1917
GFS Magazine, devoted to the moral welfare of young women, began monthly publication in London from the Girls' Friendly Society
of the Church of England
.
December 1917: The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended...
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December 1917
The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended monthly publication in London.
1918: The National Mission of Repentance and Hope,...
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1918
The National Mission of Repentance and Hope
, an evangelising organisation created by the Church of England
in 1916, published several reports.
January 1918: Daybreak, an illustrated monthly magazine...
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January 1918
Daybreak, an illustrated monthly magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society
, ended publication in London.
1919: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...
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1919
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
published The Ministry of Women, a report on women's ministry in the Church of England
over the last seventy years.
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