Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Anna Mary Howitt
AMH practised spirit drawing (letting invisible spirits guide her hand) and automatic or spirit writing; spiritualism also led her to vegetarianism. But she and her husband remained in the Church of England despite their belief...
Cultural formation Sarah Trimmer
Born into the English professional class, she was a fevent Anglican , godly from her childhood onwards.
Feminist Companion Archive.
Cultural formation James Anthony Froude
He gradually lost faith in High Church tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle . JAF was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and...
Cultural formation Philip Larkin
Born English, with a successful professional father who had risen socially by his own efforts, baptised as an Anglican , PL became in maturity an Anglican agnostic. He was an unbeliever, yet both knowledgeable...
Cultural formation Pandita Ramabai
While living with the Anglican sisterhood at Wantage inBerkshire, PR was baptised into the Church ofEngland by William Butler , together with her daughter, Manorama. She took the name Mary Rama.
Blumhofer, Edith L. “From India’s Coral Strand: Pandita Ramabai and U. S. Support for Foreign Missions”. The Foreign Mission Enterprise at Home, edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker, University of Alamaba Press, 2003, pp. 152-70.
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Adhav, Shamsundar Manohar. Pandita Ramabai. Christian Literature Society, 1979.
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Maiorani, Arianna. “Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922)”. Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present, edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp, Continuum, 2005, pp. 113-25.
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Cultural formation Monica Furlong
MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women.
qtd. in
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.
She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...
Cultural formation Augusta Gregory
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...
Cultural formation Flora Thompson
Although strongly influenced by her Methodist grandfather, FT grew up in the Anglican Church. She remained an Anglican even though she was attracted to the Catholic Church in later life.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
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Cultural formation Alethea Lewis
AL was a middle-class Englishwoman (with relatives in trade and the professions, and forebears in the nobility) who admired the political liberties of the new American colonies. She was an Anglican , but unusually relaxed...
Cultural formation E. J. Scovell
Born into the English middle classes, EJS was brought up an Anglican but after an interim period as a pantheist settled down as an an agnostic.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In a poem entitled Agnostic she pointed out that...
Cultural formation Christine Brooke-Rose
CBR was brought up Anglican and briefly educated at an Anglican boarding school.
Brooke-Rose, Christine. Remake. Carcanet, 1996.
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Cultural formation Margaret Gatty
She was born into an English, presumably white, strongly Anglican family of the professional class. Male members of her family on both sides had risen in their professions through sheer ability, and there was a...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Hands
EH was an Englishwoman, baptised into the EstablishedChurch , in her own words born in obscurity, and never emerging beyond the lower stations in life.
Hands, Elizabeth. The Death of Amnon. Printed for the Author, 1789.
dedication
Cultural formation Queen Victoria
Princess Alexandrina Victoria was confirmed an Anglican at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
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Cultural formation Violet Fane
VF belonged to a well-established family with high social connections.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Her paternal heritage reportedly stretched back to the best English, Scottish, and French blood.
Fane, Violet. “Introduction”. Poems, John C. Nimmo, 1892, p. v - viii.
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Her grandparents and parents were brought up in the Anglican

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