Anglican Church

Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish and later belonged to the Church of Ireland . Her husband was a churchwarden. By the time that her children...

She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and...

As a country clergyman's daughter SC was an Anglican of the English professional class. Her correspondence with John Wesley bears witness to the strength and immediacy of her Christian faith, but she did not agree...

Seventeenth-century Linskills were active in the Society of Friends and in local trade. Mary Jane was strongly religious. Stamp relays a story of her mother not only frightening her with stories about hell, but...

She seems to have come from the professional class and was probably a strong Anglican and monarchist.

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...

MS grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters.

SLP was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican , a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession. Allegations by Delarivier Manley that...

She was confirmed as an Anglican while she was at boarding-school, but soon afterwards realised that she did not believe in God.By the time I finished school I was an imperfectly informed but...

He was baptised into the Church of England , and as late as the age of twenty-five he was an assiduous church-goer, had some idea of becoming a clergyman, and involved himself deeply in such...

Susan E. Whyman locates JJ among English upper middling-sort women, below the level of gentry. Having married a clergyman, she was a strong Anglican , who was troubled by the prevalence of Dissent in...

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. She could be deeply contemplative...

NS 's family were professional Anglican s in two senses: her father and both grandfathers were clergymen. Her parents brought their children up with formal family prayers every morning. On Sundays they attended church twice...

She was born into the English provincial bourgeois or urban middling ranks, and was presumably white. She was an Anglican whose staunch commitment to Protestantism, suspicion of other branches of faith, and dogged belief in...

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...