Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH was baptised into the Church ofEngland . Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family...
Cultural formation Willa Cather
WC was proud to be an American, whose family, Irish in origin, had been in Virginia since colonial times.
Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago, 1989.
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She was vividly aware of the varying ethnicities that made up the melting-pot of the...
Cultural formation Harriet Hamilton King
Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism ...
Cultural formation Louisa Anne Meredith
LAM had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Freke
EF was a fervent if unorthodox Anglican and belonged to the English, monarchist gentry Through her husband and again through her daughter-in-law she had ties to Ireland.
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, 1990.
Taylor, Barbara, b. 1950. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Virago, 1984.
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Cultural formation Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
EPS belonged to the English gentry class, though her father was of Welsh descent. Though she never thought of herself as assuming Canadian nationality, her writings have given her the status of an honorary Canadian...
Cultural formation Gillian Allnutt
Born into a nominally Anglican family of the middle or professional class, GA is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland
Cultural formation Ann Gomersall
AG appears to have come from the English middle class, perhaps the urban middle class, and to have been, at least late in life, a pious and active Christian. Her works show her to be...
Cultural formation Caroline Bowles
She was a strong proponent of the Anglican Church .
Cultural formation Lucy Hutton
She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of...
Cultural formation Lady Anne Clifford
As a peer's daughter who had no brother, LAC was highly privileged. She writes of her religion (Anglican ) as an important part of her education.
Spence, Richard T. Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery. Sutton Publishing, 1997.
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Clifford, Lady Anne. Lives of Lady Anne Clifford Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676) and of Her Parents. Editor Gilson, Julius Parnell, Roxburghe Club, 1916.
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Cultural formation Dorothy Leigh
DL came from the English gentry class. She was anti-Catholic, leaning towards the Puritan arm of the Anglican church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Mary Tighe
MT 's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland .
Cultural formation Anna Sewell
After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker and Rousseauvian values...

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23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...

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23 December 1919

The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...

23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...

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23 December 1919

The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...

31 March 1920: The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished...

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31 March 1920

The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished the Anglican Church in Wales, came into effect.
Edwards, David Lawrence. Christian England, from the Eighteenth Century to the First World War. Collins, 1984, 3 vols.
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Norman, Edward R. Church and Society in England, 1770-1970. Clarendon, 1976.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
347, 359

1921: Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's physician,...

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1921

Lord Dawson of Penn , the King's physician, advocated birth control on medical, social and especially personal grounds
Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm, 1988.
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in his address to a Church of England congress in Birmingham.
Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm, 1988.
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Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
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15 June 1928: A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the...

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15 June 1928

A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the Church of England had been working for years and which among other details deleted the word obey from women's marriage vows, was rejected by Parliament

October 1928: The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican...

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October 1928

The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican monthly, ended publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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1936: The Church of England Archbishops' Commission...

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1936

The Church of EnglandArchbishops' Commission on Women and the Ministry drew its conclusions and published its report.
Furlong, Monica. Feminine in the Church. SPCK, 1984.
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After June 1936: Under the Tithe Act, the British government...

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After June 1936

Under the Tithe Act, the British government paid the Church of England something over seventy-two million pounds in lieu of the tithes it would have received over the next sixty years. But payment of tithes...

1942: The Anglican Church relaxed its expectation...

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1942

The Anglican Church relaxed its expectation that women should invariably wear hats in church.
“Women’s History Timeline”. BBC: Radio 4: Woman’s Hour.

1944: The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall, ordained...

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1944

The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall , ordained the first Anglican woman priest, Lei Tim Oi . Hall's church colleagues, however, asked her to resign, and she did so in 1946.
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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1944: Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi was ordained...

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1944

Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi was ordained by Bishop R. O. Hall as the first woman Anglican minister in the world.
Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.
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Stott, Mary. “Ordination of Women: Flickering flame passed to new generation”. Times, 24 Sept. 1981, p. 12.
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Furlong, Monica. Feminine in the Church. SPCK, 1984.
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1958: The Lambeth Conference of bishops from the...

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1958

The Lambeth Conference of bishops from the Church of England gave its seal of approval to the practice of birth control.
Fryer, Peter. The Birth Controllers. Secker and Warburg, 1965.
268

2 December 1960: Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher, Archibishop...

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2 December 1960

Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher , Archibishop of Canterbury, at the Vatican.
Allen, John L., Jr. “The Word from Rome”. New Catholic Reporter, 10 Oct. 2003.

11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...

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11 October 1962

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Stanford, Peter. “How the Catholic Church Differs from Other Denominations”. BBC: Society and Culture: Religion and Ethics: Christianity: Subdivisions: The Catholic Church, pp. 1-3.
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After 5 March 1971: Following an important meeting of the Anglican...

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After 5 March 1971

Following an important meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council at Limuru in Kenya, the bishop of Hong Kong and Macao (the diocese in which Florence Li was in 1944 ordained the world's first female...

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