Anglican Church

AT 's comedy lightens his critique both of the Anglican Church and of the reform movement within it.

FT belonged to an English professional family and was likely white; her mother came from a well-to-do Derbyshire family, and her father, the son of a Bristol saddler, was an Anglican clergyman.

FT 's opinion that church services should not be sensational foreshadows her famously strong reaction to what she perceived as the uncouth manners of Americans. One of her biographers writes that she was always specially...

FT was a strong believer in established religion, and as she had frowned upon English practices antithetical to the Church of England , so too she found American religious pluralism unsettling. In one anecdote, she...

While a young woman CT converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian religion were of no importance...

It records the thinking that led her to return from the Roman Catholic Church to the Church of England . CT uses the first person, in a clear, confident style, hammering her opponents with rhetorical questions.

CMT , who later published as A. L. O. E., formally converted to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England .

CMT came from a large, highly literate, dynamic, Anglican family that enjoyed the London social scene. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant who had spent much of his adult life in India. Her pseudonym...

CMT had always been deeply interested in India, where her father and many other relatives had built their careers. No less than five of the family were there at the time of the Mutiny....

At his point in her life, her close relatives having either died or grown up, CMT felt that she had no further family responsibilities and was free to devote herself to missionary work in India...

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...

EU 's writings about religious doctrine and practice include the historical and scholarly. The Times Literary Supplement warmly praised her most valuable essay in The Meaning of the Groups, edited by F. A. M. Spencer

EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...

EU returned actively to the Church ofEngland , in which she had been baptised and confirmed. Fourteen years earlier the move would have been unthinkable, as she could not then accept Anglican teachings.

By invitation, EU led an Anglican retreat at Canterbury Cathedral, the first woman to do this.