Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Stella Gibbons
After several years of struggling with her religious beliefs, SG was baptised into the Church of England .
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
196
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 Eleanor Sleath
ES belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church , though gothicists Michael Sadleir and Devendra P. Varma , who had different theories...
Cultural formation Charlotte Barnard
CB grew up as an English upper-class child, attending the local Anglican Church . Her family had many servants, including a coachman, a housekeeper, two housemaids, a nurse and a cook. They also owned several...
Cultural formation Emily Davies
The household was quite evangelical , owing to the influence of Emily's father, but she herself leaned in adulthood towards the Christian socialism of F. D. Maurice .
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press.
67-8
Stephen, Barbara. Emily Davies and Girton College. Constable.
19, 21, 27
She found in...
Cultural formation Martha Fowke
MF came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican .
Cultural formation Annabella Plumptre
AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and her sister Anne , 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 Mary Sewell
Both of MS 's parents were members of the Society of Friends , as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England after flirting...
Cultural formation Fay Weldon
Brought up as an atheist, FW belonged for most of her life to no organized religion, but admitted to believing in manifestations like ghosts haunting the scenes of terrible or painful events (terrors in a...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Griffith
EG came from the professional class, and from the special milieu of the theatre. She regarded herself as Irish, but lived much of her adult life in England and was of Welsh and English extraction...
Cultural formation Penelope Mortimer
Welsh by birth (although she lived her adult life in England and the USA), she was, as a clergyman's daughter, brought up in the Church of England . Her father's Communist affiliation seems not to...
Cultural formation Isabella Bird
To dedicate herself to her medical missionary work, she had herself baptized in a ceremony of total immersion. She did not, however, leave the AnglicanChurch for the Baptist church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Marianne Chambers
MC was born into the English professional class and the Anglican religion.
Cultural formation Susan Smythies
SS was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland .
“Genealogical Notes to the Pedigree of the Smythies Family”. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol.
4: 4
, pp. 276 - 86, 306.
315,317
Cultural formation Sophia Jex-Blake
Both of SJB 's parents descended from well-established Norfolk families, presumably white, and belonged to the Anglican Church . Sophia and her siblings were denied many social indulgences in favour of the work expected of...

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