Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Buchi Emecheta
BE 's mother eventually became a Christian. BE is herself an Anglican .
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994.
3
Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research, 1991.
66
Cultural formation Algernon Charles Swinburne
ACS came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy ). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne , owned an...
Cultural formation Sarah Pearson
She belonged to the (presumably white) English, Anglican , middling ranks. The idea that she was a servant and a Baptist has arisen from confusion with Susanna (Flinders) Pearson.
Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002.
412
Cultural formation Emily Hickey
Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland , she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999.
199: 167
Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969.
17, 18
Cultural formation Sheila Kaye-Smith
SKS became an Anglo-Catholic, and made her first confession (a practice followed only in the higher congregations within the Church of England ).
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne, 1980.
86
Cultural formation Emma Marshall
She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker , who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the...
Cultural formation Margaret Bryan
On the publication of her first book, the Critical Review implied that some of her opinions sounded like those of a Catholic . Defending herself, MB claimed to be irreproachably orthodox, that is Anglican ...
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 Ellen Wood
Ellen Price was a middle-class Englishwoman from a prominent business family, presumably white, and was brought up an Anglican ; her father had a particular interest in questions of church doctrine. Her early years were...
Cultural formation Rachel Speght
Daughter and wife of Calvinist clergymen, she was a fervent, Bible-based Anglican or Puritan .
Cultural formation Maggie Gee
She was confirmed in the Church ofEngland , and still believes Jesus to be a perfect model: of kindness, empathy, lack of pride. She even occasionally takes Communion, but says that ever since she was...
Cultural formation Fanny Aikin Kortright
Although she was baptised in the Church of England (at three years old, in a naval dockyard chapel), she says that throughout her life she was happy to worship in any Christian church, no matter...
Cultural formation Grace Lady Mildmay
Born into the English gentry class, Grace Sharington was brought up by her mother in the new Protestant, Anglican religion, in habits of daily prayer and meditation. She believed that salvation would come not through...
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, 1991.
5
In middle life, probably owing to the deaths of her first...
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...

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