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...

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...

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...

Her family belonged to the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class. MK called them a rather serious hunting and fishing, church-going family. They lived in County Kildare until MK was five, when they moved to County Wexford...

She grew up in an Irish landowning, philanthropic family that owned a third of County Galway. On her father's side she descended from an Anglo-Norman Catholic family; her grandfather was brought up a Protestant

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)...

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...

By the time May was old enough to make her social debut, her mother was too tired and too lacking in interest to find the time and money necessary to introduce her daughter to society...

While at her garden altar, she experienced a confused sense of something wrong with her worship and so her kept her rituals a profound secret from her parents. Guilt eventually drove her to destroy...

Brought up in the established church , GE became, as a result of her own reading and thinking, from the age of fifteen to twenty-two an Evangelical (although still Anglican) and later an agnostic who...

Her family was Scottish; they converted from the Scottish Episcopalian Church to Roman Catholicism too early for her to remember it. They were cosmopolitan in culture.

She was born into a family of Quakers . Her parents, however, were less strict in their observances than their own parents had been, and later strayed into other beliefs. Her mother dressed Anna Mary...

She was confirmed into the Church of England and despite her family's lax sexual morals, she imbibed from them the habit of taking her religion seriously. She was much distressed by her agnostic husband's attempts...

Ursula Wyllie (later SM ) broke away from her family's Anglican faith and became an idealistic agnostic before her marriage.

ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.