Anglican Church

While at her garden altar, she experienced a confused sense of something wrong with her worship and so her kept her rituals a profound secret from her parents. Guilt eventually drove her to destroy...

SS was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland .

Brought up in the established church , GE became, as a result of her own reading and thinking, from the age of fifteen to twenty-two an Evangelical (although still Anglican) and later an agnostic who...

SKS became an Anglo-Catholic, and made her first confession (a practice followed only in the higher congregations within the Church of England ).

She was born into the English middle class. Her mother had been a Quaker , who was disowned by the Friends on her marriage to a non-Quaker, but received back into the Society after the...

Of Irish and English descent, Emily was raised in the Church of England as the daughter of a clergyman. Almost nothing is known directly of her personality and opinions; one biographer characterizes her as secretive...

Her High Anglican family was well-positioned in the English middle class at the time of her birth, but although her father had aspirations to rise higher, the opposite happened. They became more and more short...

EF came from an upper-middle-class, Anglican family. While her childhood was apparently happy, she chafed at the restrictions imposed by her father, brothers, and other figures of authority, resenting the constraints placed on her...

She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church , which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism , EG and...

AMH practised spirit drawing (letting invisible spirits guide her hand) and automatic or spirit writing; spiritualism also led her to vegetarianism. But she and her husband remained in the Church of England despite their belief...

Born into the English professional class, SM rejected her family's conservatism and had become a idealistic agnostic by the time of her marriage to a male feminist who was both a socialist pacifist and an...

She belonged to the (presumably white) English, Anglican , middling ranks. The idea that she was a servant and a Baptist has arisen from confusion with Susanna (Flinders) Pearson.

Brought up in the Church of England , she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died, or that in New Zealand when...

Born into the professional middle class, NRS had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins. She became a central and well-known...

JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...