Anglican Church

MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

CC , granddaughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge , was named after his poetic heroine Christabel. She grew up in an English, presumably white, middle-class, literary, Anglican family. She later held Conservative views, especially on women's rights.

Her family was English, white; most of her male relations were merchants or clergymen. Various members of her family belonged to the EvangelicalAnglican group called the Clapham Sect , a coterie of social reformers and...

She was a middle-class Englishwoman, fervently Evangelical and in sympathy with Dissenters , who nevertheless continued to attend or at least embrace the sacraments of the Anglican church .

SS was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in the...

Born into an EnglishEvangelicalAnglican and intellectual family, WP believed that work and Christianity offered guidance through difficult times. She was a socialist by conviction, who admired the toughness of the post-war generation and was...

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.

EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .

She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge says her father belonged to the higher professional class: an uncle, cousin, and brother all distinguished themselves in legal fields. It is not...

The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society. Baldwin's father, a Wesleyan minister, was more liberal in his religious influence than her mother. He hoped Louisa would grow up to be...

With Irish forebears, BB felt she was mainly Irish despite her English nationality and American inheritance. Though the beliefs of her mother's sect affected her upbringing, she was baptised an Anglican . As an...

She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge 's The Daisy Chain, she had...

Born in the English gentry and brought up an Anglican , she became a Quaker in middle age. After this she quickly became a leader in the movement. Her class status, unusual among Quaker preachers...

She belonged to the English professional class (though her father had been an American colonist before the Revolution) and the Anglican Church . She was presumably white.

MS was born to an Englishman and a New Zealander, into the middle class and the Church of England . Her family moved when she was a baby from Sunderland, where her father was...