Anglican Church

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...

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...

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. It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...

She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker , who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the...

On the publication of her first book, the Critical Review implied that some of her opinions sounded like those of a Catholic . Defending herself, MB claimed to be irreproachably orthodox, that is Anglican ...

MCC was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England .

Ellen Price was a middle-class Englishwoman from a prominent business family, presumably white, and was brought up an Anglican ; her father had a particular interest in questions of church doctrine. Her early years were...

Daughter and wife of Calvinist clergymen, she was a fervent, Bible-based Anglican or Puritan .

She was confirmed in the Church ofEngland , and still believes Jesus to be a perfect model: of kindness, empathy, lack of pride. She even occasionally takes Communion, but says that ever since she was...

Although she was baptised in the Church of England (at three years old, in a naval dockyard chapel), she says that throughout her life she was happy to worship in any Christian church, no matter...

Born into the English gentry class, Grace Sharington was brought up by her mother in the new Protestant, Anglican religion, in habits of daily prayer and meditation. She believed that salvation would come not through...

AC worshipped in the AnglicanChurch both as a child and adult, and her early novellas, hymns, and poems emphasize her strong religious faith. In middle life, probably owing to the deaths of her first...

ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...

JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.

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...