Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Maria Abdy
As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters .
Cultural formation Fleur Adcock
This Anglican , of a kind
Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press.
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(still a church-goer) salutes the Presbyterian ancestors whose graves she failed to find, attends a service in a Belfast Free Church, but finds that the anti-popery sermon makes...
Cultural formation Lucy Aikin
LA was a middle-class Englishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was...
Author summary Cecil Frances Alexander
CFA wrote both hymns and verse, the latter also usually adaptable for music. Her work was mainly directed towards young audiences, as she excelled
Julian, John, editor. A Dictionary of Hymnology. Dover Publications.
at writing for children.
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
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.
Over the course of her career in...
politics Cecil Frances Alexander
From 1867-1869, CFA and her husband resisted the political crusade against the established Irish Church .
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix.
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Her main involvement was providing hospitality, which she did with an ease and natural dignity,
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix.
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for those...
Cultural formation Gillian Allnutt
Born into a nominally Anglican family of the middle or professional class, GA is an Englishwoman who knows by experience both the North and South of the country. Her family officially belonged to the Church ofEngland
Cultural formation Ann, Lady Fanshawe
She belonged to the English royalist gentry class. An Anglican , she resisted pressure in difficult circumstances to convert to Catholicism.
Cultural formation Anne, Lady Southwell
ALS belonged to the English gentry class, with country roots but with contacts and interest at Court. She believed in the new religion, the Protestant Church of England .
Cultural formation Pat Arrowsmith
The vicarage was by the sea, and the sheltered atmosphere was almost Victorian in its cocooned world.
Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books.
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Her Anglican family was comfortably upper-middle class, and thought of itself as upper-class. As a child...
Cultural formation Pat Arrowsmith
Both her parents were exceedingly religious,
Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books.
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her father from a lineage of Evangelical or hot-gospellingAnglican s while her mother's family had been Plymouth Brethren . Together, they administered heavy doses of religion...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Ashbridge
She grew up in a pious Anglican household, and confirmed into the Church at thirteen.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press.
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She also loved visiting the poor, and giving them money when she had any; and she was upset when...
Cultural formation Mary Astell
MA was a middle-class Englishwoman with strong High Anglican and Tory opinions. At the same time, her sustained and intense application to the issue of women's status puts her squarely in the category of early...
Textual Production Mary Astell
The full title is The Christian Religion, As Professed by a Daughter of the Church of England . Containing Proper Directions for the due Behaviour of Women in every Station of Life with remarks on...
Cultural formation Diana Athill
She was confirmed as an Anglican while she was at boarding-school, but soon afterwards realised that she did not believe in God.
Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta.
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By the time I finished school I was an imperfectly informed but...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Atkins
AA , it appears, was willing to enforce her condemnation of fashionable society to the bitter end, and to add to it an informed critique of current trends in the Anglican Church .

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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 petitionthat there might bee a newe translation of the Bible to improve on existing, imperfect English versions.

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 Bibletranslation generally called either the King James Bible (in North America) or the Authorised Version (in Britain).

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 .

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.

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 .

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 against them.

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