Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Emilie Barrington
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...
Cultural formation Mary Butts
During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...
Cultural formation Emily Davies
ED was unusual in her combination of conservatism and feminism. She was a strong supporter of the Conservative Party and the Establishment, and sought members of the Church and nobility for her committees.
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press.
57-8, 86
Cultural formation Anne Francis
Daughter, wife, and mother of clergymen, AF was English, Anglican , and presumably white.
Cultural formation Agnes Giberne
AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...
Cultural formation Sophia Hume
SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .
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.
Cultural formation Anna Margaretta Larpent
AML was born in the English gentry or professional class, with close connections to Hungarian nobility. In religion she was a pious, serious-minded Anglican .
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press.
379
Most diary entries for the year 1790 open: Rose...
Cultural formation Margaret Minifie
The Minifies had bought Fairwater House (now rebuilt and forming part of Taunton School ) in the early eighteenth century. They belonged to the Church of England and to the gentry or professional class. Margaret...
Cultural formation Frances Mary Peard
She was born into the English professional class, with links to the gentry, and seems to have been white. There was property in the family. She was a convinced and committed member of the Church of England
Cultural formation Flora Thompson
Although strongly influenced by her Methodist grandfather, FT grew up in the Anglican Church. She remained an Anglican even though she was attracted to the Catholic Church in later life.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale.
71, 133
Cultural formation Isabella Bird
To dedicate herself to her medical missionary work, she had herself baptized in a ceremony of total immersion. She did not, however, leave the AnglicanChurch for the Baptist church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Marianne Chambers
MC was born into the English professional class and the Anglican religion.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Griffith
EG came from the professional class, and from the special milieu of the theatre. She regarded herself as Irish, but lived much of her adult life in England and was of Welsh and English extraction...
Cultural formation Jane Williams
Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist ancestors...
Cultural formation Penelope Mortimer
Welsh by birth (although she lived her adult life in England and the USA), she was, as a clergyman's daughter, brought up in the Church of England . Her father's Communist affiliation seems not to...

Timeline

April 1886: Daybreak, an illustrated magazine of the...

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April 1886

Daybreak, an illustrated magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society , began monthly publication in London.

1891: The White Cross League, a chastity society...

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1891

The White Cross League , a chastity society founded in 1883, merged with the Anglican ChurchChurch of England Purity Society and was henceforth know as the White Cross Society.

1894: The Case for Disestablishment was published...

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1894

The Case for Disestablishment was published by the Liberation Society .

1896: The Church of England formed the Church Reform...

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1896

1897: The Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican...

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1897

The Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican Church (an order of ministry lower than that of priests) was finally recognized by the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops.

1903: The Representative Church Council was created...

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1903

The Representative Church Council was created to advocate for the Church of England 's legislative autonomy from Parliament.

20 April 1904: The Church of Ireland, responding to maltreatment...

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20 April 1904

The Church of Ireland , responding to maltreatment of the Jewish community of Limerick, complained to the British government of the persecution of Protestants and Jews in Ireland.

January 1912: The Church League for Women's Suffrage began...

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January 1912

The Church League for Women's Suffrage began monthly publication in London.

June 1917: The Friendly Leaves ended publication in...

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June 1917

The Friendly Leaves ended publication in London.

June 1917: The Friendly Work ceased publication in ...

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June 1917

The Friendly Work ceased publication in London.

July 1917: GFS Magazine, devoted to the moral welfare...

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July 1917

GFS Magazine, devoted to the moral welfare of young women, began monthly publication in London from the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .

December 1917: The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended...

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December 1917

The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended monthly publication in London.

1918: The National Mission of Repentance and Hope,...

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1918

The National Mission of Repentance and Hope , an evangelising organisation created by the Church of England in 1916, published several reports.

January 1918: Daybreak, an illustrated monthly magazine...

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January 1918

Daybreak, an illustrated monthly magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society , ended publication in London.

1919: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1919

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published The Ministry of Women, a report on women's ministry in the Church of England over the last seventy years.

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