Anglican Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Eleanor Sleath
ES belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church , though gothicists Michael Sadleir and Devendra P. Varma , who had different theories...
Cultural formation Dorothea Gerard
Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church to Roman Catholicism too early for her to remember it.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
145
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
under Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard
They were cosmopolitan in culture.
Cultural formation Adrienne Rich
AR described her subjectivity as split at the root.
qtd. in
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
13: 253
She was born into the white American professional class, with a Southern Protestant mother and a father who was from the North: a Jew...
Cultural formation Anna Mary Howitt
She was born into a family of Quakers . Her parents, however, were less strict in their observances than their own parents had been, and later strayed into other beliefs. Her mother dressed Anna Mary...
Cultural formation Lady Caroline Lamb
She was confirmed into the Church of England and despite her family's lax sexual morals, she imbibed from them the habit of taking her religion seriously. She was much distressed by her agnostic husband's attempts...
Cultural formation Susan Miles
Ursula Wyllie (later SM ) broke away from her family's Anglican faith and became an idealistic agnostic before her marriage.
Cultural formation Lucy Aikin
LA was a middle-classEnglishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was her...
Cultural formation Agatha Christie
AC was an upper-middle-class Englishwoman whose father was American. She was a practising Anglican , although after her divorce she no longer took Communion.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, 1984, http://Rutherford HSS.
6, 8-9, 164
Cultural formation Eliza Dunlop
She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican church. Though she spent most of her adult...
Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican , EW renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waughs Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and FallJane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181-0.
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Cultural formation Catharine Parr Traill
CPT never strayed far from the middle-class English values of her upbringing. Throughout her life she was a faithful and unquestioning Anglican . She has nevertheless achieved the status of a Canadian pioneer foremother. Her...
Cultural formation Flora Shaw
FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...
Cultural formation Sarah Green
SG seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican , yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers , millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite
Cultural formation Naomi Jacob
NJ was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost...

Timeline

By 31 May 1641: Milton entered (anonymously) the ideological...

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By 31 May 1641

Milton entered (anonymously) the ideological battle surrounding episcopacy (government of the Church of England by bishops) with the first of his five anti-prelatical pamphlets, Of Reformation touching Church Discipline in England.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Milton

By June 1643: The Westminster Assembly was set up by the...

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By June 1643

The Westminster Assembly was set up by the Long Parliament to reform the English Church .
Cannon, John, editor. The Oxford Companion to British History. Revised edition, Oxford University Press, 2002.
977
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Theodore Bathurst

1644: The English Parliament suppressed the Anglican...

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1644

The English Parliament suppressed the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
274, 304, 366

4 January 1645: The official Directory for Public Worship,...

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4 January 1645

The official Directory for Public Worship, doing away with every feast or fast of the Church of England except Sunday, was published on this day, though it was not distributed until August.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
238-9

Before October 1646: Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48)...

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Before October 1646

Roman Catholic poet Richard Crashaw (1613?-48) published his Steps to the Temple. Sacred Poems, with other Delights of the Muses.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.

27 November 1655: Cromwell issued an edict prohibiting Church...

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27 November 1655

Cromwell issued an edict prohibiting Church of England ministers from any preaching or teaching.
Evelyn, John. The Diary of John Evelyn. Editor De Beer, Esmond Samuel, Oxford University Press, 1959.
365

Probably 1659: Margaret Abbott, a convert from the Church...

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Probably 1659

Margaret Abbott , a convert from the Church of England to the Baptists , published with her name her only text, A Testimony against the False Teachers of this Generation.
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, 1990.

19 May 1662: The Act of Uniformity made use of the revised...

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19 May 1662

The Act of Uniformity made use of the revised Book of Common Prayer compulsory in England and Wales; it came into use within three months.
Collinson, Patrick. “Holy-Rowly-Powliness”. London Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2001, pp. 33-4.
33

July 1664: The Conventicle Act prohibited assembling...

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July 1664

The Conventicle Act prohibited assembling for worship anywhere other than in an Anglican church.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
315
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. 3rd revised, Simon and Schuster, 1991.
302
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.
xii

15 March 1672: Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence,...

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15 March 1672

Charles II promulgated a Declaration of Indulgence, repealing all penal laws in force against nonconformist s or recusants in England. This was, however, withdrawn after a year.
“The Declaration of Indulgence, 1672”. Humanities Web: History.

Late March 1673: The Test Act barred from office (even local...

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Late March 1673

The Test Act barred from office (even local office) anyone who declined to take the sacrament of the Church of England and an oath against the Catholic doctrine of Transubstantiation.
Bryant, Arthur. King Charles II. Longmans, Green, 1931.
226-7
Colley, Linda. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837. Yale University Press, 1992.
326

1676: A tally taken by Church of England clergymen...

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1676

A tally taken by Church of England clergymen and known as the Compton Census set out to number adult Catholics and Dissenters in England and Wales.
Rowlands, Marie B. English Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558-1778. Catholic Record Society, 1999.
78-9, 81, 84, 87

11 April 1687: John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther, A...

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11 April 1687

John Dryden 's The Hind and the Panther, A Poem, In Three Parts, was licensed for print: a vindication of the Catholic Church against the Church of England which, unusually, takes the form of...

February 1689 to October 1791: The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between...

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February 1689 to October 1791

The Williamite War was waged in Ireland between supporters of the deposed James II (who landed at Kinsale on 12 March 1689 with substantial French forces) and supporters of William of Orange (who had assumed...

8 March 1698: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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8 March 1698

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge or SPCK, set up to provide charity schools (and missionary outreach in British colonies), held its first meeting.
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, 1990.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. The Charity School Movement: A Study of Eighteenth-Century Puritanism in Action. F. Cass, 1964.
38
Adamson, John William. Pioneers of Modern Education 1600-1700. Cambridge University Press, 1905.
205

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