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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Anthologization | Susanna Hopton | George Hickes
included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH
to Henry Turberville
on choosing the Anglican
over... |
Characters | Lucas Malet | The class difference between this pair is figured in the religion of their respective fathers, which each has rejected. Colthurst's father was a fashionable preacher who regularly packed his Anglican
church; Jenny's is an ex-seaman... |
Characters | Georgiana Fullerton | A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. |
Cultural formation | Anne Finch | |
Cultural formation | Anna Maria Hall | Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican
Church. AMH
encountered many practising Catholic
s while living with her maternal step-grandfather
, who often entertained... |
Cultural formation | P. D. James | |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAB was baptised into the Church of England
. Her religious belief was broad-minded, liberal, tolerant. Faced with the Evangelical tendencies of the family of her future husband, who disapproved of many of her Sunday... |
Cultural formation | Harriett Mozley | Harriett remained committed to the Church of England
throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman
converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological... |
Cultural formation | Edith J. Simcox | She was christened on 11 September 1844 at Christchurch Greyfriars in London. Her family belonged to the English middle class and was presumably white. After an Anglican
upbringing, she moved away from conventional religious... |
Cultural formation | Anne Whitehead | She was baptised an Anglican
, and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends
. Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Bentley | She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans
. |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | |
Cultural formation | Ethel M. Dell | EMD
was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant
and her father a Catholic
who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD
adopted... |
Cultural formation | Mary Frere | |
Cultural formation | Bessie Head | Brought up by a Roman Catholic
foster-mother, sent to an Anglican
mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next, Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. Wits University Press. 20, 25 |
Timeline
1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...
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1527
A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer
, wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus
, whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
November 1534: The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch,...
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November 1534
The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch, not the Pope
, head of the Church of England.
October 1536: The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion...
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October 1536
The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion against Henry VIII
's religious reforms and dissolution of monasteries and convents (in effect, against the birth of the Church of England
), spread across the...
Late 1552: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury...
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Late 1552
Thomas Cranmer
, Archbishop of Canterbury under Edward VI
, produced an Anglican
revised Book of Common Prayer.
1559: Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth...
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1559
Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth I
sought to establish the English Church under her headship; Thomas Cranmer
's Prayer Book of 1552 became the official Book of Common Prayer.
1563: Convocation of the Church of England drew...
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1563
Convocation of the Church of England
drew up the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, as a statement of what it is necessary for an Anglican to believe.
August 1598: Full-scale revolt against English rule (that...
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August 1598
Full-scale revolt against English rule (that is, rule over the Roman Catholic Church
majority by a newly-settled Anglican
elite) broke out in Ireland in the form of Tyrone's Rebellion, led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
.
16 January 1604: One year into his reign in England, King...
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16 January 1604
One year into his reign in England, King James I
received a petitionthat there might bee a newe translation of the Bible to improve on existing, imperfect English versions.
2 May 1611: A committee of bishops completed and issued...
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2 May 1611
A committee of bishops
completed and issued the English Bibletranslation generally called either the King James Bible (in North America) or the Authorised Version (in Britain).
April 1637: Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly...
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April 1637
Alexander Henderson
of Leuchars, a godly leader of the Scottish Kirk
, held a secret meeting with a group of Edinburgh matrons to enlist their aid in resistance against the imposition of the new (...
23 July 1637: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer was used...
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23 July 1637
The AnglicanBook of Common Prayer was used for the first time, according to Charles I
's order, at St Giles's Church in Edinburgh, the centre of the Scottish (Presbyterian
) Church.
28 February 1638: At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen...
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28 February 1638
At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen opposed to Charles I
's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish (Presbyterian
) Church signed a National Covenant against such innovations: in...
27 March-June 1639: Charles I made war on the Scottish Covenanters,...
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27 March-June 1639
20 August 1640: The Scots (provoked by Charles I's imposition...
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20 August 1640
The Scots (provoked by Charles I
's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish Presbyterian
Church in 1637) invaded England, and for the second time in eighteen months their monarch marched against them.
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