Anglican Church

MWD came from the rural middle class, from middle England and the established church . Her father not only owned his land but even considered himself a gentleman (though neither his income nor, probably, his...

CEP abandoned the Anglican ism of her family and had an early interest in Pantheism, but ultimately she became an agnostic.

As a child she knelt at bedtime to say her prayers: she loved praying and did it with great intensity. After the regulation Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, she would talk to Jesus (rather than...

Born into the English gentry, ES was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic: that is to say, a member of the Church of England . Her eldest brother, for...

DW was an Englishwoman born into the professional middle class. She was an Anglican in religion, who wrote: Life without God is meaningless—for me at any rate, and, during the first months of the...

AG 's parents were Irish Protestant land-owners whose estate, encompassing thousands of acres, was originally acquired in the seventeenth century. Her forebears were a mix of Irish and English, Catholic and Protestant. Her maternal grandmother...

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...

At an Anglican convent in Cornwall run by the Little Sisters of the Poor , Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later Morrell) met Mother Julian , one of her early mentors.

English by birth and presumably white, she was raised in the Church of England , a religious upbringing that reflected her father's and grandfather's occupations as Church of England clergymen. From her final book-length...

She has sometimes been said to be a Catholic (perhaps because her husband's family had long had leanings that way); but she was an Anglican who explained in her Philosophical Letters that she followed the...

EN was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian , the family attended a Presbyterian kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her...

DR 's father also rejected his family's religious nonconformism. While most of them were Baptists, he married as an Anglican and took his family to St Helen's Anglican Church in Abingdon.

Daughter and wife of Calvinist clergymen, she was a fervent, Bible-based Anglican or Puritan .

EH was an Englishwoman, baptised into the EstablishedChurch , in her own words born in obscurity, and never emerging beyond the lower stations in life.

GJ at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic priest, but found it unsatisfying. Having read an essay by Thomas Carlyle during the Christmas...