Anglican Church

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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 Mary Tighe
MT 's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland .
Cultural formation Anna Sewell
After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker and Rousseauvian values...
Cultural formation Ruth Pitter
RP was baptised an Anglican as a baby by parents who had trained at Church of England colleges but were not churchgoers.
Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40.
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Brought up between her father's scepticism and her mother's eclecticism in matters...
Cultural formation Mary Harcourt
Born into the upper ranks of the English gentry and into the Church of England , presumably white, she entered into metropolitan court society with her first marriage and reached the fringes of the nobility...
Cultural formation Sophia Jex-Blake
Both of SJB 's parents descended from well-established Norfolk families, presumably white, and belonged to the Anglican Church . Sophia and her siblings were denied many social indulgences in favour of the work expected of...
Cultural formation Rose Macaulay
Her brother's death impelled her to search in Anglican ritual, liturgy, and sacraments for a faith to sustain her.
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, 1988.
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Cultural formation W. H. Auden
Around the same time he took up again the Anglicanism of his childhood, this time in the form of the USEpiscopalian church. In this he was influenced at the time by such socially-conscious Christian...
Cultural formation Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater
Lady Elizabeth Cavendish's birth family was not remarkable for its piety, but she may have been an exception among them. As an unmarried girl she wrote her name in a copy of St Peter's Complaint...
Cultural formation William Congreve
He was born into the northern English minor country gentry, but he grew up (as an Anglican ) in Ireland, spending his childhood and youth there.
Cultural formation Katharine Evans
KE grew up an Anglican , but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists , then the Independents , before becoming one of the Society of Friends very soon after its inception...
Cultural formation Joan Vokins
Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.
qtd. in
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
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Cultural formation Elizabeth Strutt
ES appears to have been securely rooted in the English middle class, presumably white, and evidently from her later writings an Anglican .
Cultural formation Maude Royden
Her religious upbringing provided some exposure to Catholicism, which attracted her. By her mid-twenties she found herself in much perplexity about my religion . . . and I could not find rest for my soul...

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