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.
Anglican Church
Connections
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Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | She was baptised in the Church of England
but by 1912, MAD
had converted to Catholicism
. Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing. |
Cultural formation | Martha Hale | She belonged to the English gentry class and to the Church of England |
Cultural formation | Kate Parry Frye | Kate Parry Frye, suffrage organizer, playwright, and prolific diarist, was English (with some Scottish antecedents), middle-class, and presumably white. She was a conventional Anglican
church-goer, but was excited after the war by the preaching of... |
Cultural formation | Penelope Lively | |
Cultural formation | Susan Smythies | SS
was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland
. “Genealogical Notes to the Pedigree of the Smythies Family”. Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol. 4: 4 , pp. 276 - 86, 306. 315,317 |
Cultural formation | Fleur Adcock | This Anglican
, of a kind Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press. 44 |
Cultural formation | Agatha Christie | |
Cultural formation | Eliza Dunlop | She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican
church. Though she spent most of her adult... |
Cultural formation | Frances Ridley Havergal | FRH
grew up in a pious Anglican
family, and was later deeply religious herself, as evident in her writings. She developed an interest in the Church Missionary Society
(as well as its Irish counterpart), the... |
Cultural formation | Judith Cowper Madan | Born into the English professional class, to a family with strong connections with the law, JCM
became deeply religious. When the Methodist
movement got going (still within the Church of England
) it attracted her strongly. |
Cultural formation | Roma White | |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Strickland | Her High Anglican
family was well-positioned in the English middle class at the time of her birth, but although her father had aspirations to rise higher, the opposite happened. They became more and more short... |
Cultural formation | W. H. Auden | Around the same time he took up again the Anglicanism of his childhood, this time in the form of the USEpiscopalian
church. In this he was influenced at the time by such socially-conscious Christian... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater | Lady Elizabeth Cavendish's birth family was not remarkable for its piety, but she may have been an exception among them. As an unmarried girl she wrote her name in a copy of St Peter's Complaint... |
Cultural formation | William Congreve | He was born into the northern English minor country gentry, but he grew up (as an Anglican
) in Ireland, spending his childhood and youth there. |
Timeline
23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...
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23 December 1919
The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England
greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...
23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...
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23 December 1919
The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England
greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...
31 March 1920: The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished...
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31 March 1920
The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished the Anglican Church
in Wales, came into effect.
1921: Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's physician,...
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1921
Lord Dawson of Penn
, the King's physician, advocated birth control on medical, social and especially personal grounds in his address to a Church of England
congress in Birmingham.
Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm.
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15 June 1928: A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the...
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15 June 1928
A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the Church of England
had been working for years and which among other details deleted the word obey from women's marriage vows, was rejected by Parliament
.
October 1928: The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican...
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October 1928
1936: The Church of England Archbishops' Commission...
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1936
The Church of EnglandArchbishops' Commission on Women and the Ministry
drew its conclusions and published its report.
After June 1936: Under the Tithe Act, the British government...
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After June 1936
Under the Tithe Act, the British government paid the Church of England
something over seventy-two million pounds in lieu of the tithes it would have received over the next sixty years. But payment of tithes...
1942: The Anglican Church relaxed its expectation...
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1942
The Anglican Church
relaxed its expectation that women should invariably wear hats in church.
1944: The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall, ordained...
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1944
The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall
, ordained the first Anglican woman priest, Lei Tim Oi
. Hall's church colleagues, however, asked her to resign, and she did so in 1946.
1944: Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi was ordained...
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1944
Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi
was ordained by Bishop R. O. Hall
as the first woman Anglican
minister in the world.
1958: The Lambeth Conference of bishops from the...
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1958
The Lambeth Conference
of bishops from the Church of England
gave its seal of approval to the practice of birth control.
2 December 1960: Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher, Archibishop...
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2 December 1960
11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...
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11 October 1962
After 5 March 1971: Following an important meeting of the Anglican...
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After 5 March 1971
Following an important meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council at Limuru in Kenya, the bishop of Hong Kong and Macao (the diocese in which Florence Li
was in 1944 ordained the world's first female...
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