Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Mary Scott
MS grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters.
Though Anna Seward said they were Anglicans
Cultural formation Elizabeth Delaval
ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...
Cultural formation Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna
Her upbringing in a professional, Tory, English family was surprisingly unconventional: she was encouraged to roam freely with her brother, to read widely . . . and forbidden to wear restrictive clothing.
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.
Although her father...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Freke
EF was a fervent if unorthodox Anglican and belonged to the English, monarchist gentry Through her husband and again through her daughter-in-law she had ties to Ireland.
Cultural formation Susanna Watts
Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters .
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott.
39
The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...
Cultural formation Sarah Green
SG seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican , yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers , millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite
Cultural formation Naomi Jacob
NJ was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost...
Cultural formation Jan Morris
She asserted that she had never been a believing Christian, though she was steeped in the music and architecture of Anglicanism and the culture of Christianity in general.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber.
5
She voiced her adult beliefs as:...
Cultural formation Enid Blyton
She was brought up a Baptist (baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to...
Cultural formation Mary Prince
The Methodist Church had broken away from the Church of England in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Charles
She was born into a supportive, professional English family.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray.
6, passim
Travel in France and exposure to the Oxford Movement made EC consider converting to the Roman Catholic Church later in life. However, she remained...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
She also became increasingly preoccupied with the Evangelical movement within the Church ofEngland . Her continuing interest in UpperCanada included funding Anglican missionary work there and paying for the English university education of several promising...
Cultural formation Catharine Trotter
While a young woman CT converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian religion were of no importance...
Cultural formation Nina Hamnett
Born into the English professional class, NH lost no time in becoming cosmopolitan and déclassée. She was brought up to believe that women were worth less than men, though she later discovered that female gender...
Cultural formation Elizabeth White
Nothing is known of her family except that they were Anglicans . They probably belonged somewhere in the English middling classes.

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