Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Anna Wheeler
AW came from a wealthy and socially prominent Protestant Irish landowning family; she was the god-daughter of the Irish nationalist Henry Grattan . Her family life was intellectual and enlightened, as well as prosperous: the...
Cultural formation Anna Wheeler
The daughter of a radical Anglican , AW was herself a materialist and thus also an atheist.
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.
Taylor, Barbara. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Virago.
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Family and Intimate relationships Anna Wheeler
AW 's father, Nicholas Milley Doyle , was a radical Anglican, who became, however, a prebendary in the Church of Ireland .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Swindles, Julia. Political Women 1800 - 1850. Editors Frow, Ruth and Edmund Frow, Pluto Press.
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Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research.
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Several sources say he was an archbishop.
Cultural formation Susanna Wesley
SW was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)...
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 Julia Wedgwood
Her parents were connected to the Unitarian tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood as well as to the largely Anglican evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect centred close to their home in South London...
Cultural formation Augusta Webster
She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was...
Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
Her family were Unitarian s but her father converted to the Church of England . She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of...
Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Potter (later BW ) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions...
Cultural formation Mary Webb
Mary was shy, intense, and introspective.
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.
Her biographer Gladys Mary Coles says that both her parents came from moderately wealthy middle-class society, each with strong Church of England connections.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth.
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Her parents farmed for pleasure...
Cultural formation Harriet Shaw Weaver
She was brought up in a wealthy, English, middle-class, evangelical Church of England household where prayer was read twice daily. By early adulthood she rejected the teachings of the Church, but she kept her views...
Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican , EW renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span&gt”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0.
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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.
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The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...
Cultural formation Rosamund Marriott Watson
She came from an English, presumably white, middle-class, Anglican family. As an adult she became an agnostic, and also entertained an interest in spiritualism.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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politics Elisabeth Wast
Early in the eighteenth century, the Covenant, Scotland's Glory above other Nations, was threatened by a malignant, ungodly, Prelatick Party.
Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises.
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These men were waiting for the death of the Protestant champion William III 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

Hannah Ball opened an early Methodist Sunday school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

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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