Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Emilie Barrington
She came from an upper middle-class business family whose background included Quaker and Anglican elements. She staunchly upheld the class system, identifying herself with the upper classes. As an adult, she assumed an anti-suffrage stance...
Cultural formation Susanna Moodie
Religion was a source of conflict in SM 's personal life and in her husband's professional life. An early relationship with a Nonconformist distanced SM from the high Anglican tradition embraced by her parents and...
Cultural formation Mary Butts
During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...
Cultural formation Emily Davies
ED was unusual in her combination of conservatism and feminism. She was a strong supporter of the Conservative Party and the Establishment, and sought members of the Church and nobility for her committees.
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press.
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Cultural formation Anne Francis
Daughter, wife, and mother of clergymen, AF was English, Anglican , and presumably white.
Cultural formation Dorothy L. Sayers
James Brabazon , her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional
Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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despite her often unorthodox life decisions (particularly her sexual relationships and her child born outside wedlock). DLS was the daughter of an Anglican
Cultural formation Annie Tinsley
AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner.
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Cultural formation Jane Warton
JW was born into the English middle class and the established Church. The careers of her male relatives suggest the upper middle class, while her own employment suggests the lower middle class.
Cultural formation Martha Hale
She belonged to the English gentry class and to the Church of England
Cultural formation Penelope Lively
PL is, she says, an agnostic. She came out as such at around fifteen to her grandmother (a keen Anglican whose religion involved a commitment to serving the local community). She explained that she assented...
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 C. E. Plumptre
Little is known about her background. Her family, however, was old-established, presumably white, certainly English, Anglican , and upper-middle-class.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
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.
Cultural formation Percy Bysshe Shelley
He was born into a family of the English country gentry, Foxite Whigs but without Percy's radical fire. They were conventionally practising Anglican s and were outraged at his early espousal of atheism.
Cultural formation Frances Trollope
FT 's opinion that church services should not be sensational foreshadows her famously strong reaction to what she perceived as the uncouth manners of Americans. One of her biographers writes that she was always specially...

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