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 grew up as a merely nominal Anglican without any inward and spiritual faith. She later acquired intense Puritan piety. The memoirist Elizabeth Walker credited Mary Rich's conversion to her husband, the Rev. Anthony Walker .

SG seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican , yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers , millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite

ET seems to have belonged to the English middling ranks; she was a strong and sincere Anglican .

NJ was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost...

ES was confirmed into the Anglican Church.

AL was an upper-middle-class Jew from a family which had been English for over a century, though they travelled the world for career purposes more freely than most English people.

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.

Born into the English professional class, NH lost no time in becoming cosmopolitan and déclassée. She was brought up to believe that women were worth less than men, though she later discovered that female gender...

The Jewsbury family was middle-class, English, and white. MJJ was a practising member of the Church of England .

On her return from a holiday in Italy, RM received a letter from her former confessor, Father Hamilton Johnson , which in due course brought her back to the Anglican Church.