Anglican Church

MSC was an Englishwoman of the upper middle class and a fervent Anglican . Her male forebears were landowners and lawyers.

She belonged to the English royalist gentry class. An Anglican , she resisted pressure in difficult circumstances to convert to Catholicism.

After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .

MJY 's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England and...

She said she was of the middle rank of society, of the old school, both in politics and religion. What she meant by this politically was conservatism: being perfectly satisfied with the powers that be...

She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, while living through her father's successive shifts of belief and witnessing their negative impact on his family and his...

Before the age of six, EG had renounced orthodox Christianity ; her grandmother had enlisted a clergyman to teach Elinor and her sister the catechism, but both girls rebelled against Christian dogma. In...

ML was baptised into the Church of England at five weeks old. Her early poetry speaks of belief in Father God, heaven, and Judgment Day.

Baptised an Anglican , Jane was about sixteen at the time of her vocation to the inward and divine life.

She writes occasionally like an Anglican , more often like a Deist or sceptic, and frequently as an anti-Catholic. In politics she was a pro-Robert Walpole Whig.

CB grew up as an English upper-class child, attending the local Anglican Church . Her family had many servants, including a coachman, a housekeeper, two housemaids, a nurse and a cook. They also owned several...

The household was quite evangelical , owing to the influence of Emily's father, but she herself leaned in adulthood towards the Christian socialism of F. D. Maurice . She found in...

MF came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican .

Her parents were connected to the Unitarian tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood as well as to the largely Anglican evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect centred close to their home in South London...

SG came from the English, presumably white, gentry or professional class, and married into an Irish gentry family which was just securing ties, through socially upward marriage, with the nobility. She belonged to the Church of England