Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Olaudah Equiano
At Cadiz in Spain, OE had a spiritual reawakening which he calls conversion, after which he worshipped as a Methodist as well as an Anglican . His conversion came as the climax and resolution...
Cultural formation Anna Maria Hall
A devout Christian , AMH was also a firm believer in the phenomenon of spiritualism.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Hall, Samuel Carter. Retrospect of a Long Life: From 1815 to 1883. D. Appleton.
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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 Frances Trollope
FT belonged to an English professional family and was likely white; her mother came from a well-to-do Derbyshire family, and her father, the son of a Bristol saddler, was an Anglican clergyman.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press.
4
Cultural formation Anna Wheeler
The daughter of a radical Anglican , AW was herself a materialist and thus also an atheist.
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.
Taylor, Barbara. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Virago.
70
Cultural formation Frances Burney
FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon.
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Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press.
23
Cultural formation John Strange Winter
She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine ),
Castlemaine had...
Cultural formation Monica Furlong
MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women.
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.
She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Helme
She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism compared with the Anglican church.
Cultural formation Iris Murdoch
One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism : a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable.
Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, pp. 52-3.
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Cultural formation Samuel Johnson
SJ was a passionate, perhaps a bigoted, Anglican , who was never until very late in life able to believe in the likelihood of his own salvation. In matters involving religion (including issues of gender...
Cultural formation Jean Rhys
JR was at one time attracted to Catholicism , mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns
Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch.
77
circulated amongst the...
Cultural formation Muriel Spark
MS was baptised into the Anglican Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes , a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
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Walker, Dorothea. Muriel Spark. Twayne.
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Whittaker, Ruth. The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark. Macmillan.
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Cultural formation Evelyn Underhill
Though she was an Anglican by birth and confirmation, her upbringing was not a religious one. Her father seems to have had a philosophical interest in religion, but he was far from devout. In his...
Cultural formation Phyllis Bentley
Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her...

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