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...

SWM , born into a comfortable rank in British colonial society, became a proud American. She was proud also of her father's Welsh heritage. Her Lines to the Mansion of My Ancestors...

JB was, however, always careful to distinguish her spiritual beliefs from any particular religious institutions. In a letter of 1883 she acknowledged that I go to the Church once a Sunday out of a feeling...

Once she was established in England, with the Anglican sisterhood at Wantage in Berkshire, PR 's doubts about Hinduism grew, and after her companion Bhagat committed suicide she converted to join the Church of England .

SS belonged to the English middle class. Her religious background was Anglican , but as her biographer Frances Spalding notes, she was an agnostic who could not entirely abandon belief in a God of Love...

This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant and her father a Catholic . They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage...

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

Her immediate, nuclear family was an enclave of agnosticism while her extended family was unanimously Anglican —though not uniformly, since it was sharply divided between High and Low Church. Her memoirs emphasise the moral strength...

She was born into the urban middle class, of Welsh descent on at least her father's side. She seems to have been an Anglican , and was presumably white.

MJY 's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England and...

MB was an upper-middle-class Englishwoman, whose male relations were active members of the establishment which governed the nation and empire. In religion she was an Anglican .

CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .

Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She...