Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Cassandra Cooke
She belonged securely to the English professional or gentry class, and to the Church of England .
Cultural formation Zoë Fairbairns
She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture...
Cultural formation Mary Gawthorpe
MG begins her autobiography with her local identity: I was Yorkshire born. My forebears, grandparents maternal and paternal, were all born in Yorkshire, in Leeds so far as I know.
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press.
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Born English therefore, she...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains
Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
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, pp. 165-72.
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to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...
Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
She was deeply influenced by her father, an Irish Nationalist politician from the gentry class, who taught her to be proud of her Irish descent. She was a Protestant for the first four decades of...
Cultural formation Radagunda Roberts
She seems to have been of Welsh extraction, and was presumably white. Her brothers had solid professional careers; she presumably belonged, like others of her family, to the Church of England .
Cultural formation Agnes Strickland
Her securely middle-class family had aspirations to rise higher in the social scale, but their financial status steadily declined. They were High Anglicans .
Pope-Hennessy, Una. Agnes Strickland: Biographer of the Queens of England. Chatto and Windus.
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Cultural formation Queen Victoria
QV was a devout Anglican , as befitted the head of the Church of England . (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian , that is Church of Scotland , parish church.)
Cultural formation Jane Barker
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...
Cultural formation Charlotte Dacre
The Anglican baptism of CD 's children may—perhaps—represent a final severing of her Jewish roots.
Cultural formation Ann Gomersall
AG appears to have come from the English middle class, perhaps the urban middle class, and to have been, at least late in life, a pious and active Christian. Her works show her to be...
Cultural formation Lucy Hutton
She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of...
Cultural formation Caroline Leakey
CL was a member of a pious middle-class evangelical Anglican family who were presumably white and of English descent. She herself was a devoted Christian who participated in evangelical and missionary endeavours.
Walker, Shirley. “’Wild and Wilful’ Women: Caroline Leakey and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Broad Arrow</span&gt”;. A Bright and Fiery Troop, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin Books Australia, pp. 85-99.
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Pike, Douglas, editor. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press.
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Cultural formation John Strange Winter
She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine ),
Castlemaine had...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Thomas
She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she...

Timeline

January 1802: The Christian Observer was launched, as a...

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January 1802

The Christian Observer was launched, as a journalConducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.

1803: The Wesleyan Conference decided that their...

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1803

The Wesleyan Conference decided that their association (still within the Anglican Church but soon to form the new body of the Methodist Church ) should bar women from preaching.

Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...

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Perhaps late 1803

Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott , 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity , from its Source to its Present Circumstances.

1811: The National Society for Promoting the Education...

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1812: The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church...

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1812

The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church of England to form the Methodist Church .

14 August 1829: King's College, University of London, was...

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14 August 1829

King's College, University of London , was founded and given a charter; it opened its doors two years later.

14 July 1833: John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's...

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14 July 1833

John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's Church, High Street, Oxford (the University Church), on National Apostacy; it is viewed as the beginning of the Tractarian Movement.

1837: The debate over sacramental wine raged in...

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1837

The debate over sacramental wine raged in the temperance movement: Rev. Beardsall of Manchester campaigned for the substitution of grape juice or unfermented wine at the altar.

15 August 1838: The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed;...

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15 August 1838

The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed; a dubious victory at best for the peasantry.

1843: The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising...

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1843

The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising industry for blatant lies, particularly in the use of fictitious product endorsements.

January 1846: An Anglican newspaper titled The Guardian...

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January 1846

An Anglican newspaper titled The Guardian began publication in London, supporting the Tractarian movement in the Church of England.

18 July 1848: The Sisters of St John's House was established...

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18 July 1848

The Sisters of St John's House was established at King's College Hospital for the newly founded Anglican nursing order, the Community of Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine .

16 October 1848: Priscilla Lydia Sellon founded the Church...

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14 September 1850: A new convent for the Anglican Sisterhood...

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14 September 1850

A new convent for the AnglicanSisterhood of the Holy Cross began construction in Osnaburgh Street in London.

8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...

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8 August 1851

The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England ) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger (1790-1862).

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