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...

She was born into the English professional class, with connections in the nobility, and brought up in the Anglican church. As an adult she became, like her husband, an early Unitarian .

Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...

She was born into a well-educated, strictly Anglican family. Both her grandfathers were clergymen and most of her brothers had distinguished careers in public life. Her father's position as a prominent solicitor and land agent...

IM was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland , had come down in the...

Born into the English professional class, she was a fevent Anglican , godly from her childhood onwards.

She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was...

The vicarage was by the sea, and the sheltered atmosphere was almost Victorian in its cocooned world. Her Anglican family was comfortably upper-middle class, and thought of itself as upper-class. As a child...

EB was English, urban, presumably white, and of the middling sort. It is probable from the support she received that her lowest Condition of Fortune was something that happened to her, not something she was...

Raised as an Evangelical Christian , FPC later became the first heretic in her family, which boasted five archbishops and a bishop. She made a name for herself as a theist theologian, regularly attending Unitarian...

TSE was received into the Church of England in the parish church at Finstock in Oxfordshire. Five months later, he became a naturalised British subject, which at this date meant renouncing his US citizenship.

The Church ofEngland was still resolved against ordaining women when in 1986 a vote was passed forbidding invitations to visiting, foreign women priests to celebrate Holy Communion. MF and her associates responded by founding the...

Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland , she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic .