Anglican Church

QV was a devout Anglican , as befitted the head of the Church of England . (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian , that is Church of Scotland , parish church.)

Her mother taught her to love the language of the Anglican prayer book and made her go to church (of the very HighAnglican variety). JG gave up her church-going when she was free to do...

She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .

MM was born into the American professional class. She decided to become a Christian (an Episcopalian ) when she was nearly nine, as a gesture of rebellion against the freethinking of her parents. She...

The third great influence on CY 's life was John Keble , the Tractarian churchman. He was already famous when he became a regular visitor in the home of the twelve-year-old Charlotte, though they had...

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.

She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she...

For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything...

She was thus a member of the Anglo-Irish professional class, Anglican in religion and presumably white.

Baptised an Anglican , Jane was about sixteen at the time of her vocation to the inward and divine life.

She writes occasionally like an Anglican , more often like a Deist or sceptic, and frequently as an anti-Catholic. In politics she was a pro-Robert Walpole Whig.

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...

In religion RNC was an earnest HighAnglican . Her friend Helen Marion Burnside said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing.

Her membership by birth in the English nobility gave her a relative imperviousness to public opinion. She was a believing Anglican .

He gradually lost faith in High Church tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle . JAF was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and...