Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Anna Letitia Waring
ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.
Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
6
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research.
240: 306
Cultural formation Margaret Fell
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...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Goudge
She belonged to the Church of England , which was a great influence on her life.
Goudge, Elizabeth. The Joy of the Snow. Hodder and Stoughton.
244
Cultural formation Anne Plumptre
AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and sister Bell , she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism .
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, p. vii - xxix.
viii and n4
Cultural formation Henrietta Battier
HB 's writings demonstrate that she was not only Irish but also an Irish nationalist, a Whig, a Protestant (probably Church of Ireland ) and a sympathiser with freemasonry.
Battier, Henrietta. The Protected Fugitives. James Porter, http://Bodleian: 280 i 105.
xiv, 120-30, 158ff, 27-31, 163ff, 181-2, 190-2
Cultural formation William Shakespeare
Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS subscribed to the Church of England or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism . Supporters of the Catholic...
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 A. S. Byatt
ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...
Cultural formation Susanna Wesley
SW was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)...
Cultural formation Pamela Frankau
The Times obituary of PF describes her as coming from a gifted Jewish family
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(9 June 1967): 12
on her father's side, but it was not an observant family. G. B. Stern refers to PF
Cultural formation Elizabeth Ham
She was confirmed in the Church of England , noticing the formalistic, bureaucratic way this was carried out.
Ham, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Ham, by Herself, 1783-1820. Editor Gillett, Eric, Faber and Faber.
50
Cultural formation Frances Reynolds
She was born into an English west-country professional or just-gentry family, and was a devout Anglican , who cared about whether or not her friends went to church and disapproved of her brother Joshua painting...
Cultural formation E. Owens Blackburne
She was Irish by birth and family, presumably white, and probably Protestant, which is to say a member of the Church of Ireland .
O’Donoghue, David James. The Poets of Ireland. Gale Research.
62
Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass.
Cultural formation Anne, Lady Southwell
ALS belonged to the English gentry class, with country roots but with contacts and interest at Court. She believed in the new religion, the Protestant Church of England .
Cultural formation Lady Jane Lumley
By birth and marriage LJL belonged to the English nobility. Her father was sharply attentive to issues of rank. LJL was born at almost the same time as the Church of England , and her...

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