Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Frances Ridley Havergal
FRH was confirmed in the Anglican Church ; her particular views were Evangelical.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge.
Cultural formation Jane Johnson
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...
Cultural formation Judith Cowper Madan
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.
Madan, Falconer. The Madan Family. Oxford University Press.
82
Cultural formation Diana Athill
She was confirmed as an Anglican while she was at boarding-school, but soon afterwards realised that she did not believe in God.
Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta.
219-20
By the time I finished school I was an imperfectly informed but...
Cultural formation John Henry Newman
The ex-Anglican leader and Tractarian JHN completed his conversion by being received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press.
316
Cultural formation Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Her family had strong ties to the Church of England and she remained a devoted Christian throughout her life, though she did not share her father's fondness for sermons.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
77-8
She could be deeply contemplative...
Cultural formation Charlotte Riddell
CR said I may fairly claim to be English, Scotch, and Irish.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce.
14
She was, however, of the Irish or Anglo-Irish gentry by predominant heritage, a Londoner by adoption, an Anglican in religion, and presumumably...
Cultural formation Anna Steele
Her heritage was English: her mother 's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white...
Cultural formation Jane Gardam
Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...
Cultural formation Hannah Kilham
She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .
Cultural formation Margaret Mead
MM was born into the American professional class. She decided to become a Christian (an Episcopalian ) when she was nearly nine, as a gesture of rebellion against the freethinking of her parents.
Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, p. xii; 540 pp.
104
She...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Browne
She grew up adhering to a private religion of her own, a Romantic religion of the imagination. In 1832, however, a kind of conversion experience made her a conventional Christian, an Anglican like the rest...
Cultural formation Julia Pardoe
She was born into the professional class (and was presumably white). Her father served in the army while her paternal uncle, William Pardoe , was a naval officer. The Pardoe family was said to have...
Cultural formation Louisa Stuart Costello
Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
The fact that her brother received Anglican baptism years after his birth suggests that the family may perhaps have been Catholics before that.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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...

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