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Cultural formation | Elizabeth Burnet | EB
was born into an English gentry family. John Fell
, Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University
and the University Press
), was... |
Cultural formation | Phebe Gibbes | She seems to have belonged to the middle or lower gentry class and to the Church of England
, |
Cultural formation | Isa Craig | Isa grew up poor and Scottish. 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. Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span>”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38. 135 Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus. 201 |
Cultural formation | Catherine Hubback | |
Cultural formation | Anne Finch | |
Cultural formation | Lady Caroline Lamb | She was confirmed into the Church of England
and despite her family's lax sexual morals, she imbibed from them the habit of taking her religion seriously. She was much distressed by her agnostic husband's attempts... |
Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian
but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican
to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale
held strongly to his Unitarian background and was... |
Cultural formation | Susan Miles | |
Cultural formation | Christopher St John | At some point after CSJ
met her long-time partner Edith Craig
, she converted from her family's Anglicanism
to Roman Catholicism
. Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton. 389 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin. 250 |
Cultural formation | Sophie Veitch | The Veitch family were presumably white, and belonged to the Scottish gentry, with male members holding professional positions. 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. Burke, John. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke’s Peerage. |
Cultural formation | Phyllis Bentley | Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans
and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her... |
Cultural formation | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In religion RNC
was an earnest HighAnglican
. Her friend Helen Marion Burnside
said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing. Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Constantia Grierson | Constantia received some early instruction from the Minister of the Parish Elias, A. C. “A Manuscript of Constantia Grierson’s”. Swift Studies, Vol. 2 , pp. 33-56. 36 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. under George Grierson |
Cultural formation | Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire | Her membership by birth in the English nobility gave her a relative imperviousness to public opinion. She was a believing Anglican
. |
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... |
Timeline
By November 1700: The recently founded SPCK opened a charity...
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By November 1700
The recently founded SPCK
opened a charity school for forty girls at St Andrew's in Holborn, where a boys' school had opened early in the year. Subscribers included Sarah, Lady Cowper
for three pounds...
1701: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel...
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1701
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
(a major Anglican
missionary organisation) was founded as an offshoot of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
.
: Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates...
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Spring1729
Charles Wesley
and two or three other undergraduates founded a society at Oxford which others called methodistical.
1761: The Countess of Huntingdon established her...
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1761
The Countess of Huntingdon
established her first registered chapel, at Brighton.
1769: Hannah Ballimg: move in unlikely event of...
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1769
6 February 1772: The House of Commons rejected a petition...
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6 February 1772
The House of Commons
rejected a petition to drop the Creeds and Thirty-Nine Articles as requisites to Anglican
belief.
Spring 1772-Spring 1773: The passage through parliament of the Toleration...
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Spring 1772-Spring 1773
The passage through parliament of the Toleration Bill gave opportunities to Edmund Burke
to argue for religious toleration—in the belief that this would actually strengthen the Church of England
.
17 April 1774: The inaugural service was held at the first...
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17 April 1774
The inaugural service was held at the first Unitarian
chapel, in Essex Street, London.
1784: John Wesley broke finally with the Church...
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1784
John Wesley
broke finally with the Church of England
, though still vacillating as to whether to espouse full Evangelicism
; in 1787 his Methodist
chapels were registered as Dissenting chapels.
2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...
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2 March 1790
Charles James Fox
proposed in the House of Commons
the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters
). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four years).
After 2 March 1791: Following the death of John Wesley, the Methodists...
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After 2 March 1791
Following the death of John Wesley
, the Methodists
extended the circuit system throughout Britain as an alternative to the parish system used by the Established Church
1793: William Freind argued in Peace and Union...
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1793
William Freind
argued in Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans against the union of Church
and state.
1797: Andrew Bell, a Scottish Anglican clergyman,...
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1797
Andrew Bell
, a Scottish Anglican
clergyman, published An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras. Suggesting a system by which a school or family may teach itself under the superintendence...
By April 1799: The Church Missionary Society was founded...
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By April 1799
The Church Missionary Society
was founded by the Evangelical wing of the Church of England
, as the Society for Missions in Africa and the East.
1801: The Quaker Joseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian...
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1801
The QuakerJoseph Lancaster
opened his non-sectarian Free School in Borough Road in south-east London; he soon had a thousand pupils.
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