Anglican Church

EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .

She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge says her father belonged to the higher professional class: an uncle, cousin, and brother all distinguished themselves in legal fields. It is not...

AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and sister Bell , she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism .

CBR was brought up Anglican and briefly educated at an Anglican boarding school.

Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS subscribed to the Church of England or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism . Supporters of the Catholic...

VF belonged to a well-established family with high social connections. Her paternal heritage reportedly stretched back to the best English, Scottish, and French blood. Her grandparents and parents were brought up in the Anglican

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)...

MK 's family was English and presumably white, but it embodied several internal contradictions. Through her father she belonged to the professional classes, but on her mother's side she sprang from the working class. Her...

EM came from a professional Anglican family. She was an advocate of social reform, particularly of educational reform, and of wider roles for women.

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...

She was born into an English west-country professional or just-gentry family, and was a devout Anglican , who cared about whether or not her friends went to church and disapproved of her brother Joshua painting...

JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...

ALS belonged to the English gentry class, with country roots but with contacts and interest at Court. She believed in the new religion, the Protestant Church of England .

MWD came from the rural middle class, from middle England and the established church . Her father not only owned his land but even considered himself a gentleman (though neither his income nor, probably, his...

EU returned actively to the Church ofEngland , in which she had been baptised and confirmed. Fourteen years earlier the move would have been unthinkable, as she could not then accept Anglican teachings.