Anglican Church

George Hickes included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH to Henry Turberville on choosing the Anglican over...

The class difference between this pair is figured in the religion of their respective fathers, which each has rejected. Colthurst's father was a fashionable preacher who regularly packed his Anglican church; Jenny's is an ex-seaman...

A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...

Once she was established in England, with the Anglican sisterhood at Wantage in Berkshire, PR 's doubts about Hinduism grew, and after her companion Bhagat committed suicide she converted to join the Church of England .

She was born into the Anglo-Irish middle class and brought up as a member of the Church of Ireland . A friend said that her faith was essentially a religion of brightness and of love.

SS belonged to the English middle class. Her religious background was Anglican , but as her biographer Frances Spalding notes, she was an agnostic who could not entirely abandon belief in a God of Love...

Her immediate, nuclear family was an enclave of agnosticism while her extended family was unanimously Anglican —though not uniformly, since it was sharply divided between High and Low Church. Her memoirs emphasise the moral strength...

EB was confirmed in the Church ofEngland in March 1905, but she hated churchgoing (which her father dubbed Satan-chasing) and leaned toward atheism. As a young woman, she moved in artistic circles in London.

Sources also differ as to whether her family were Church of IrelandAnglicans (following long tradition) and Charlotte later inclined to Methodism or Evangelicism, like her mother, or whether while many of her relations were...

MSC was an Englishwoman of the upper middle class and a fervent Anglican . Her male forebears were landowners and lawyers.

She belonged to the English royalist gentry class. An Anglican , she resisted pressure in difficult circumstances to convert to Catholicism.

Before the age of six, EG had renounced orthodox Christianity ; her grandmother had enlisted a clergyman to teach Elinor and her sister the catechism, but both girls rebelled against Christian dogma. In...

CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .

ML was baptised into the Church of England at five weeks old. Her early poetry speaks of belief in Father God, heaven, and Judgment Day.

She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Daughter of a French, Roman Catholic