Anglican Church

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Anthologization Susanna Hopton
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...
Characters Lucas Malet
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...
Characters Georgiana Fullerton
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.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...
Cultural formation Mary Rich Countess of Warwick
She grew up as a merely nominal Anglican without any inward and spiritual faith.
qtd. in
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
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She later acquired intense Puritan piety. The memoirist Elizabeth Walker credited Mary Rich's conversion to her husband, the Rev. Anthony Walker .
Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694.
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Cultural formation Sarah Green
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
Cultural formation Elizabeth Tipper
ET seems to have belonged to the English middling ranks; she was a strong and sincere Anglican .
Cultural formation Naomi Jacob
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...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Sewell
ES was confirmed into the Anglican Church.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
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Cultural formation Amy Levy
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.
Many reference books still repeat...
Cultural formation Ada Cambridge
AC worshipped in the AnglicanChurch both as a child and adult, and her early novellas, hymns, and poems emphasize her strong religious faith.
Bradstock, Margaret, and Louise Wakeling. Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. Penguin, 1991.
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In middle life, probably owing to the deaths of her first...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Delaval
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...
Cultural formation Jessie Fothergill
JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Scholar Helen Debenham notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell , who is writing a...
Cultural formation Nina Hamnett
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...
Cultural formation Maria Jane Jewsbury
The Jewsbury family was middle-class, English, and white. MJJ was a practising member of the Church of England .
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
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Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
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Cultural formation Rose Macaulay
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.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
298, 301
Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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Timeline

1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...

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1527

A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer , wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus , whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “Archives”. Lives for Sale: Biographers’ Tales, edited by Mark Bostridge, Continuum, 2004, pp. 62-7.
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November 1534: The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch,...

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November 1534

The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch, not the Pope , head of the Church of England.
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2025.
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Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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October 1536: The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion...

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October 1536

The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion against Henry VIII 's religious reforms and dissolution of monasteries and convents (in effect, against the birth of the Church of England ), spread across the...

Late 1552: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury...

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Late 1552

Thomas Cranmer , Archbishop of Canterbury under Edward VI , produced an Anglican revised Book of Common Prayer.
“Liturgical Resources Online”. Links for for Seminarians, Pastors & Teachers.

1559: Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth...

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1559

Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth I sought to establish the English Church under her headship; Thomas Cranmer 's Prayer Book of 1552 became the official Book of Common Prayer.
Guy, John. “The Tudor Age (1485-1603)”. Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 223-85.
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1563: Convocation of the Church of England drew...

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1563

Convocation of the Church of England drew up the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, as a statement of what it is necessary for an Anglican to believe.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
274
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

August 1598: Full-scale revolt against English rule (that...

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August 1598

Full-scale revolt against English rule (that is, rule over the Roman Catholic Church majority by a newly-settled Anglican elite) broke out in Ireland in the form of Tyrone's Rebellion, led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone .
Jones, Harrie Stuart Vedder. A Spenser Handbook. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1930.
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Kelly, Matthew. “With Bit and Bridle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 15, 5 Aug. 2010, pp. 12-13.
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16 January 1604: One year into his reign in England, King...

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16 January 1604

One year into his reign in England, King James I received a petition that there might bee a newe translation of the Bible to improve on existing, imperfect English versions.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
16 January 2009

2 May 1611: A committee of bishops completed and issued...

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2 May 1611

A committee of bishops completed and issued the English Bible translation generally called either the King James Bible (in North America) or the Authorised Version (in Britain).
Bible. Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
2 May 2008
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. “How good is it?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 3, 3 Feb. 2011, pp. 20-2.
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October 1636: The Scottish Privy Council was ordered to...

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October 1636

The Scottish Privy Council was ordered to issue a proclamation compelling the Scottish Kirk to use the new (Anglican ) Scottish Prayer Book designed by Laud .
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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April 1637: Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly...

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April 1637

Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly leader of the Scottish Kirk , held a secret meeting with a group of Edinburgh matrons to enlist their aid in resistance against the imposition of the new (...

23 July 1637: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer was used...

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23 July 1637

The AnglicanBook of Common Prayer was used for the first time, according to Charles I 's order, at St Giles's Church in Edinburgh, the centre of the Scottish (Presbyterian ) Church.
The Covenanters: The Fifty Years Struggle 1638-1688. http://www.sorbie.net/covenanters.htm.
Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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28 February 1638: At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen...

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28 February 1638

At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen opposed to Charles I 's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish (Presbyterian ) Church signed a National Covenant against such innovations: in...

27 March-June 1639: Charles I made war on the Scottish Covenanters,...

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27 March-June 1639

Charles I made war on the ScottishCovenanters , or adherents of Presbyterianism .
Fissel, Mark Charles. The Bishops’ Wars: Charles I’s campaigns against Scotland, 1638-1640. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Hibbard, Caroline. Charles I and the Popish Plot. University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
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Purkiss, Diane. The English Civil War, A People’s History. Harper Perennial, 2007.
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20 August 1640: The Scots (provoked by Charles I's imposition...

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20 August 1640

The Scots (provoked by Charles I 's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish Presbyterian Church in 1637) invaded England, and for the second time in eighteen months their monarch marched...

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