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...

KE grew up an Anglican , but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists , then the Independents , before becoming one of the Society of Friends very soon after its inception...

Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.

ES appears to have been securely rooted in the English middle class, presumably white, and evidently from her later writings an Anglican .

Her religious upbringing provided some exposure to Catholicism, which attracted her. By her mid-twenties she found herself in much perplexity about my religion . . . and I could not find rest for my soul...

The Paters were Anglican . WP later struggled with his religious faith, which had become quite strong during his youth, and eventually broke away from the Christian tradition. During his time at Oxford, he was...

CH 's parents came from long-established gentry families in their area and were said to have been regarded with deep respect by local people—a respect which they would have claimed as their due. She was...

Having found she could live with Broad Church theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists...

MM was an English Anglican of the lower middle class.

She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...

Charlotte was a member of the Scottish nobility on the side of her father (a duke). She had the example before her of her beautiful mother's dramatic rise into that class (from impoverished Irish gentry...

RC was born into the English middle class. She remained committed to the Conservative Party and the Church of England throughout her life, though her religious belief must surely have been complicated by her interest...

The third great influence on CY 's life was John Keble , the Tractarian churchman. He was already famous when he became a regular visitor in the home of the twelve-year-old Charlotte, though they had...