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.
Anglican Church
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Olaudah Equiano | |
Cultural formation | May Sinclair | |
Cultural formation | Charlotte Maria Tucker | |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | MF
was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Helme | She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism
compared with the Anglican
church. |
Cultural formation | Samuel Johnson | |
Cultural formation | Frances Burney | FB
was serious about her Anglican
faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism
, which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic. Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon. 11 Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press. 23 |
Cultural formation | Florence Nightingale | FN
experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican
Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic |
Cultural formation | E. Arnot Robertson | Born into the English, presumably white, professional class, she grew up to be highly critical of that class, yet at the same time to continue something of a snob and a racist. These views were... |
Cultural formation | Harriet Beecher Stowe | In 1816, HBS
went to stay for a time with her grandmother in a setting widely different from her birth home. Her father's home is described as being Congregational
and democratic in contrast to the... |
Cultural formation | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
begins her autobiography with her local identity: I was Yorkshire born. My forebears, grandparents maternal and paternal, were all born in Yorkshire, in Leeds so far as I know. Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press. 7 |
Cultural formation | Susanna Hopton | SH
had married as a RomanCatholic
, but her new husband
devoted himself with indefatigable Pains Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol. 38 , pp. 165-72. 170 |
Cultural formation | Phyllis Bentley | Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans
and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her... |
Cultural formation | Rosa Nouchette Carey | In religion RNC
was an earnest HighAnglican
. Her friend Helen Marion Burnside
said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing. Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Susanna Parr | After this decisive step the former bickering and negotiation continued. Two women visited her, very likely at the instigation of their husbands, to beg her to stay. After a couple of months, however, this church... |
Timeline
January 1802: The Christian Observer was launched, as a...
Writing climate item
January 1802
The Christian Observer was launched, as a journalConducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism
and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.
1803: The Wesleyan Conference decided that their...
Building item
1803
The Wesleyan Conference decided that their association (still within the Anglican Church
but soon to form the new body of the Methodist Church
) should bar women from preaching.
Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...
Women writers item
Perhaps late 1803
Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott
, 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity
, from its Source to its Present Circumstances.
1811: The National Society for Promoting the Education...
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1811
The National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church
was founded by the Church of England
. It still exists, known as The National Society (Church of England) for Promoting Religious Education
1812: The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church...
National or international item
1812
The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church of England
to form the Methodist Church
.
14 August 1829: King's College, University of London, was...
National or international item
14 August 1829
King's College, University of London
, was founded and given a charter; it opened its doors two years later.
14 July 1833: John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's...
National or international item
14 July 1833
John Keble
preached a sermon at St Mary's Church, High Street, Oxford (the University Church), on National Apostacy; it is viewed as the beginning of the Tractarian Movement.
1837: The debate over sacramental wine raged in...
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1837
The debate over sacramental wine raged in the temperance movement: Rev. Beardsall
of Manchester campaigned for the substitution of grape juice or unfermented wine at the altar.
15 August 1838: The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed;...
National or international item
15 August 1838
The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed; a dubious victory at best for the peasantry.
1843: The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising...
Building item
1843
The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising industry for blatant lies, particularly in the use of fictitious product endorsements.
January 1846: An Anglican newspaper titled The Guardian...
Writing climate item
January 1846
An Anglican
newspaper titled The Guardian began publication in London, supporting the Tractarian
movement in the Church of England.
18 July 1848: The Sisters of St John's House was established...
Building item
18 July 1848
The Sisters of St John's House
was established at King's College Hospital
for the newly founded Anglican nursing order, the Community of Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine
.
16 October 1848: Priscilla Lydia Sellon founded the Church...
Building item
16 October 1848
Priscilla Lydia Sellon
founded the Church of EnglandSisterhood of Mercy of Devonport and Plymouth
in Exeter.
14 September 1850: A new convent for the Anglican Sisterhood...
Building item
14 September 1850
A new convent for the AnglicanSisterhood of the Holy Cross
began construction in Osnaburgh Street in London.
8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...
National or international item
8 August 1851
The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England
) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger
(1790-1862).
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