Anglican Church

The introductory essay named in the title is a history and an analysis of (in Burke 's phrase a philosophical enquiry into) Dissent in Britain. Its topics include the loss of status for ministers who...

She strikes a newly bold, almost an insurrectionary note here, calling upon revolutionary France, indeed, to provide a model. [W]hatever is corrupted must be lopt away, she writes, as people assert their long forgotten...

France and Britain had been at war since the first of February, and the fast was held for the sake of the war. Church of England bishops composed a form of prayer for the occasion...

She also kept up her output of political poetry. Only a few years after this Hannah More 's Bishop Bonner's Ghost (a ballad extolling, through irony, the modern, enlightened Church of England ) drew from...

She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...

HB said that her father, Colonel Henry Jervis , owed his rigid cast of mind to his upbringing in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland (before a rather late conversion to Anglicanism ) and to his...

An ordained clergyman, he held many positions in the Church of England , and lectured on divinity at St Paul's Cathedral. He was an adviser on Bentley's Miscellany and a founder member of the...

This was a later series of what had begun in 1871 as Evening Hours, a Family Church of England Magazine, edited by E. H. Bickersteth , a hymn-writer and future bishop. MAB ceased to...

Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...

It appeared though Curll and Rivington , dedicated to the Countess of Nottingham (an Anglican who was said to be a Catholic sympathiser). Its frontispiece is an engraving of the Crucifixion. It has recently been...

Brought up in the Church of England , she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died, or that in New Zealand when...

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...

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...

HB 's writings demonstrate that she was not only Irish but also an Irish nationalist, a Whig, a Protestant (probably Church of Ireland ) and a sympathiser with freemasonry.

AB chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists . Her family belonged to the Church of England (though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself).