Anglican Church

PB was confirmed into the Anglican Church while attending St John the Baptist School in New York City.

English-identified despite her Irish birth and cosmopolitan interests, and presumably white, she came from the intelligentsia although her family was very poor. By the time of her ninety-fifth birthday, after nearly forty years residence in...

Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. As...

JS was born to an upper-class family, and later felt that her childhood friendships with the household servants had awakened in her a sense of social justice and protest. Ironically, she came to be widely...

Lucie Austin (later LDG ) was baptised and confirmed as an Anglican on the last Sunday of the year; she was sixteen.

MR grew up in a Conservative, Anglican family of wealthy English shipyard owners. In 1922 she said, I was born a woman and I can't get over it.

GJ was born to middle-class, presumably white, English parents who were members of the Church of England .

CL was born into the English ruling class and baptised into the Church ofEngland . She became a vegetarian in her twenties, for moral and compassionate as well as for health reasons. Not until...

Born English, to what he later described book-loving, Anglo-Catholic parents of the professional class, he shed his religious belief at about thirteen, well after his recognition of his own homosexuality, and later still acquired...

Elizabeth Cavendish (later Lady Bridgewater) was born into the English, monarchist nobility, and married within it too. In later life, as her writings make clear, she was passionately committed to her Protestant, Anglican faith.

Both parents came from Dissenting backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist . She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican church, chose from an...

GS 's father's family had been in the glass manufacturing business for several generations. The business was at its peak in her early years and her family was rich and respected. But its empire-building days...

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...

SH belongs to the English middle class, and is Anglican in religion. Her faith was severely tested by the early death of her second daughter, but it held firm.

She grew up as a member of the Church of England .