Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Elizabeth von Arnim
By the time May was old enough to make her social debut, her mother was too tired and too lacking in interest to find the time and money necessary to introduce her daughter to society...
Cultural formation Caroline Bowles
While at her garden altar, she experienced a confused sense of something wrong with her worship and so her kept her rituals a profound secret
qtd. in
Blain, Virginia. Caroline Bowles Southey, 1786-1854. Ashgate, 1998.
127
from her parents. Guilt eventually drove her to destroy...
Cultural formation George Eliot
Brought up in the established church , GE became, as a result of her own reading and thinking, from the age of fifteen to twenty-two an Evangelical (although still Anglican) and later an agnostic who...
Cultural formation Ann Thicknesse
She was a proudly middle-class Englishwoman, whose contact with the upper classes and subsequent travel abroad only reinforced her conviction of the superiority of her own rank and nationality. She was apparently a member of...
Cultural formation Gladys Henrietta Schütze
Her family were British members of prosperous, successful Jewry. In 1884 D'Israeli had only been dead four years and tolerance was very much the order of the day. So that anti-semitism was at a very...
Cultural formation Sarah Lady Pennington
SLP was an Englishwoman, born into the professional class, presumably white, who was married for her money. By her marriage moved into the upper reaches of the gentry. She became déclassée on the breakdown of...
Cultural formation Frances Ridley Havergal
FRH was confirmed in the Anglican Church ; her particular views were Evangelical.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Cultural formation Jennifer Johnston
She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice.
qtd. in
Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen, 1986.
52
On atmosphere, she leaned to the Catholic Church (she had first...
Cultural formation Bathsua Makin
BM was a middle-class, Anglican , Puritan, royalist Englishwoman.
Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press, 1998.
27-8
Cultural formation Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR was brought up Anglican and briefly educated at an Anglican boarding school.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Remake. Carcanet, 1996.
68
Cultural formation Violet Fane
VF belonged to a well-established family with high social connections.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Her paternal heritage reportedly stretched back to the best English, Scottish, and French blood.
Fane, Violet. “Introduction”. Poems, John C. Nimmo, 1892, p. v - viii.
vi
Her grandparents and parents were brought up in the Anglican
Cultural formation Margaret Veley
MV 's middle-classAnglican family had both English and Swiss forebears. It had all the conservatism common to this group in society; Margaret defined her own liberal and independent thinking against that of her family.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, 1888, p. vii - xxiv.
vii, ix
Cultural formation Emma Parker
She says her family had gentry status but no money. She was Welsh by domicile and probably by birth. Her Christian (presumably Anglican ) faith appears to have been important to her.
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
According to biographer Edward Maitland , AK first became deeply interested in Anglican theology after the birth of her daughter, while her husband Algernon was studying for the ministry. She began attending classes with him,...
Cultural formation Mary Anne Barker
Brought up in the Church of England , she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died,
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
86-7
or that in New Zealand when...

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