Anglican Church

JD was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic . He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his...

In youth she acquired the habit of walking several miles each week to hear a Puritan preacher. When she was married, she and her husband considered leaving the Anglican church for the Independents, but decided...

While working for the Daily HeraldGHS developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard , who was one influence towards her conversion to...

She belonged to the English professional class, and was presumably white and a member of the Church of England .

She came from an English, presumably white, middle-class, Anglican family. As an adult she became an agnostic, and also entertained an interest in spiritualism.

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...

From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

Both her parents were exceedingly religious, her father from a lineage of Evangelical or hot-gospellingAnglican s while her mother's family had been Plymouth Brethren . Together, they administered heavy doses of religion...

She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic , Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts...

Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...

The Methodist Church had broken away from the Church of England in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean.

She also became increasingly preoccupied with the Evangelical movement within the Church ofEngland . Her continuing interest in UpperCanada included funding Anglican missionary work there and paying for the English university education of several promising...

While a young woman CT converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian religion were of no importance...

Born into the English professional class, NH lost no time in becoming cosmopolitan and déclassée. She was brought up to believe that women were worth less than men, though she later discovered that female gender...