Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Martha Fowke
MF came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican .
Cultural formation Dorothy Whipple
DW was an Englishwoman born into the professional middle class. She was an Anglican in religion, who wrote: Life without God is meaningless—for me at any rate,
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966.
42
and, during the first months of the...
Cultural formation Frances Trollope
FT 's opinion that church services should not be sensational foreshadows her famously strong reaction to what she perceived as the uncouth manners of Americans. One of her biographers writes that she was always specially...
Cultural formation Catherine Sinclair
CS 's family were Episcopalians , not members of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. She herself was a fervent Protestant and her evangelical bent can be felt in her books for children.
Mitchison, Rosalind. Agricultural Sir John: The Life of Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, 1754-1835. Geoffrey Bles, 1962.
236
However, in...
Cultural formation Mary Renault
MR was confirmed as an Anglican , and enjoyed church ceremonies, but it was Plato 's belief in the individual which provided her with a lifelong ethical code. Later in life she discovered the works...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Isham
EI took after her mother in being personally very devout as an adult, though she was nearly twenty when for the first time she aprehended or took seriously to heart a sermon as applying to...
Cultural formation Denise Levertov
Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...
Cultural formation Lady Ottoline Morrell
At an Anglican convent in Cornwall run by the Little Sisters of the Poor , Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later Morrell) met Mother Julian , one of her early mentors.
Seymour, Miranda. Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
32
Cultural formation Maria Abdy
As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters .
Cultural formation John Dryden
JD 's family belonged to the gentry class. They were AnglicanPuritans in religion and supporters of the parliament side in the English Civil War.
Cultural formation Mary Rich Countess of Warwick
She grew up as a merely nominal Anglican without any inward and spiritual faith.
qtd. in
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
80
She later acquired intense Puritan piety. The memoirist Elizabeth Walker credited Mary Rich's conversion to her husband, the Rev. Anthony Walker .
Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694.
8
Cultural formation Elizabeth Tipper
ET seems to have belonged to the English middling ranks; she was a strong and sincere Anglican .
Cultural formation Elizabeth Sewell
ES was confirmed into the Anglican Church.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
40, 63
Cultural formation Annabella Plumptre
AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and her sister Anne , she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism .
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
viii and n4
Cultural formation Elizabeth Hamilton
She grew up Anglican like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian , so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her...

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