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Cultural formation Susan Tweedsmuir
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...
Cultural formation Monica Furlong
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...
Cultural formation Emily Hickey
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 .
Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research.
199: 167
Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press.
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Cultural formation Elizabeth Justice
EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches )...
Cultural formation Catherine Marsh
She belonged to the English upper or upper-middle class, and by religion to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England . She never married or had her own children, though she adopted and cared...
Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Cultural formation Michèle Roberts
She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR implicitly admitted to being middle-class now.
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
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Daughter of a French, Roman Catholic
Cultural formation Elizabeth Elstob
She was a middle-class, English, presumably white, High Tory Anglican .
Cultural formation Queen Victoria
Princess Alexandrina Victoria was confirmed an Anglican at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
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Cultural formation Anna Williams
AW was a Welshwoman born into a professional family deep in the Pembrokeshire countryside. Belief in second sight flourished there, and it seems that AW herself as an adult (though a devout Anglican ) believed...
Cultural formation Alice Meynell
Alice Thompson (later AM ) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Browne
She grew up adhering to a private religion of her own, a Romantic religion of the imagination. In 1832, however, a kind of conversion experience made her a conventional Christian, an Anglican like the rest...
Cultural formation Louisa Stuart Costello
Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
The fact that her brother received Anglican baptism years after his birth suggests that the family may perhaps have been Catholics before that.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Thomas
She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Isham
EI took after her mother in being personally very devout as an adult, though she was nearly twenty when for the first time she aprehended or took seriously to heart a sermon as applying to...

Timeline

By November 1700: The recently founded SPCK opened a charity...

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By November 1700

The recently founded SPCK opened a charity school for forty girls at St Andrew's in Holborn, where a boys' school had opened early in the year. Subscribers included Sarah, Lady Cowper for three pounds...

1701: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel...

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1701

The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (a major Anglican missionary organisation) was founded as an offshoot of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge .

: Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates...

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Spring1729

Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates founded a society at Oxford which others called methodistical.

1761: The Countess of Huntingdon established her...

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1761

The Countess of Huntingdon established her first registered chapel, at Brighton.

1769: Hannah Ballimg: move in unlikely event of...

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1769

Hannah Ball opened an early Methodist Sunday school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

6 February 1772: The House of Commons rejected a petition...

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6 February 1772

The House of Commons rejected a petition to drop the Creeds and Thirty-Nine Articles as requisites to Anglican belief.

Spring 1772-Spring 1773: The passage through parliament of the Toleration...

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Spring 1772-Spring 1773

The passage through parliament of the Toleration Bill gave opportunities to Edmund Burke to argue for religious toleration—in the belief that this would actually strengthen the Church of England .

17 April 1774: The inaugural service was held at the first...

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17 April 1774

The inaugural service was held at the first Unitarian chapel, in Essex Street, London.

1784: John Wesley broke finally with the Church...

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1784

John Wesley broke finally with the Church of England , though still vacillating as to whether to espouse full Evangelicism ; in 1787 his Methodist chapels were registered as Dissenting chapels.

2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...

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2 March 1790

Charles James Fox proposed in the House of Commons the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters ). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four years).

After 2 March 1791: Following the death of John Wesley, the Methodists...

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After 2 March 1791

Following the death of John Wesley , the Methodists extended the circuit system throughout Britain as an alternative to the parish system used by the Established Church

1793: William Freind argued in Peace and Union...

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1793

William Freind argued in Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans against the union of Church and state.

1797: Andrew Bell, a Scottish Anglican clergyman,...

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1797

Andrew Bell , a Scottish Anglican clergyman, published An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras. Suggesting a system by which a school or family may teach itself under the superintendence...

By April 1799: The Church Missionary Society was founded...

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By April 1799

The Church Missionary Society was founded by the Evangelical wing of the Church of England , as the Society for Missions in Africa and the East.

1801: The Quaker Joseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian...

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1801

The QuakerJoseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian Free School in Borough Road in south-east London; he soon had a thousand pupils.

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