Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Susan Hill
SH belongs to the English middle class, and is Anglican in religion. Her faith was severely tested by the early death of her second daughter, but it held firm.
Sanderson, Caroline. “Interview, Susan Hill”. Mslexia, No. 48, pp. 13-15.
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Cultural formation Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Her family had strong ties to the Church of England and she remained a devoted Christian throughout her life, though she did not share her father's fondness for sermons.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research.
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She could be deeply contemplative...
Cultural formation Dorothy Osborne
She was an Anglican from the English gentry class.
Cultural formation Christina Rossetti
She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...
Cultural formation Jan Struther
JS was born to an upper-class family, and later felt that her childhood friendships with the household servants had awakened in her a sense of social justice and protest. Ironically, she came to be widely...
Cultural formation Emma Jane Worboise
The Literary World was apparently mistaken in calling EJWthe novelist of Evangelical Dissent and in speculating as to whether or not she ever left the Anglican Church.
Melnyk, Julie. “Evangelical Theology and Feminist Polemic: Emma Jane Worboise’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Overdale</span&gt”;. Women’s Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, Garland, pp. 107-22.
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The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
Cultural formation Ethel Lilian Voynich
English-identified despite her Irish birth and cosmopolitan interests, and presumably white, she came from the intelligentsia although her family was very poor. By the time of her ninety-fifth birthday, after nearly forty years residence in...
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 Fanny Aikin Kortright
Although she was baptised in the Church of England (at three years old, in a naval dockyard chapel), she says that throughout her life she was happy to worship in any Christian church, no matter...
Cultural formation Grace, Lady Mildmay
Born into the English gentry class, Grace Sharington was brought up by her mother in the new Protestant, Anglican religion, in habits of daily prayer and meditation. She believed that salvation would come not through...
Cultural formation Dorothy L. Sayers
James Brabazon , her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional
Brabazon, James. Dorothy L. Sayers. Charles Scribner’s Sons.
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despite her often unorthodox life decisions (particularly her sexual relationships and her child born outside wedlock). DLS was the daughter of an Anglican
Cultural formation Annie Tinsley
AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century.
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner.
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She...
Cultural formation Jane Warton
JW was born into the English middle class and the established Church. The careers of her male relatives suggest the upper middle class, while her own employment suggests the lower middle class.
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

Timeline

16 August 1851: Harriet Brownlow Byron founded the Anglican...

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16 August 1851

Harriet Brownlow Byron founded the AnglicanSociety of All Saints Sisters of the Poor at 67 Mortimer Street in the town of London Colney in Hertfordshire.

3 November 1855: An advertisement marked the launch of the...

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3 November 1855

An advertisement marked the launch of the conservative (high Tory and Anglo-Catholic ), weeklySaturday Review; it focused on Politics, Literature, Science, and Art.

1857: Dean Howson advocated the establishment of...

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1857

Dean Howson advocated the establishment of an Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican Church ; such an Order was recognized by the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops only in 1897.

November 1860: Thomas Hill Green became one of the first...

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November 1860

Thomas Hill Green became one of the first laymen to hold a fellowship at Balliol College .

18 July 1862: The Bishop of London, Archibald Campbell...

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18 July 1862

The Bishop of London, Archibald Campbell Tait , set apartElizabeth Ferard to be a deaconess in the Anglican Church , and to head an Order of Deaconesses, even though no such order as yet officially existed.

26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...

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26 July 1869

The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone disestablished the Church of Ireland and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords .

1 January 1871: The Disestablishment Act came into effect;...

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1 January 1871

The Disestablishment Act came into effect; the (Anglican) Church of Ireland ceased to be a national body on a par with the Church of England.

1871: The University Test Act abolished all religious...

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1871

The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England ) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford and Cambridge ) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.

1875: The British parliament passed the Public...

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1875

The British parliament passed the Public Worship Regulation Act, which was designed to curb the growing enthusiasm in the Church of England for ritual.

January 1876: The monthly Friendly Leaves, published in...

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January 1876

The monthly Friendly Leaves, published in London, began as the first magazine of the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .

1880: The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society...

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1880

January 1880: The GFS Advertiser, devoted to the moral...

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January 1880

The GFS Advertiser, devoted to the moral welfare of young women, began publishing from the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .

January 1881: India's Women, the magazine of the Church...

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January 1881

India's Women, the magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society , began monthly publication in London.

January 1883: Friendly Work began monthly (later quarterly)...

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January 1883

Friendly Work began monthly (later quarterly) publication in London from the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .

1883: The Church Schools Company was founded in...

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1883

The Church Schools Company was founded in London.

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