Anglican Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Elizabeth Warren
EW was apparently a conservative, Puritan Englishwoman of the gentry or professional class. She belonged to the Church ofEngland ; she attacks both sectaries and Catholics. In politics she was a monarchist.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Warren
EW sets out here is to defend Anglican clergymen of Presbyterian sympathies, who were currently under attack from more more extreme reformers, and in general to defend the need for a highly educated body of...
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.
politics Elisabeth Wast
Early in the eighteenth century, the Covenant, Scotland's Glory above other Nations, was threatened by a malignant, ungodly, Prelatick Party.
Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises.
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These men were waiting for the death of the Protestant champion William III and...
Cultural formation Rosamund Marriott Watson
She came from an English, presumably white, middle-class, Anglican family. As an adult she became an agnostic, and also entertained an interest in spiritualism.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Cultural formation Susanna Watts
Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters .
Aucott, Shirley. Susanna Watts (1768 to 1842): author of Leicester’s first guide, abolitionist and bluestocking. Shirley Aucott.
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The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...
Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican , EW renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waugh’s Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Decline and Fall</span&gt”;. Jane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, pp. 181-0.
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Cultural formation Harriet Shaw Weaver
She was brought up in a wealthy, English, middle-class, evangelical Church of England household where prayer was read twice daily. By early adulthood she rejected the teachings of the Church, but she kept her views...
Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
Her family were Unitarian s but her father converted to the Church of England . She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of...
Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Potter (later BW ) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions...
Cultural formation Mary Webb
Mary was shy, intense, and introspective.
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.
Her biographer Gladys Mary Coles says that both her parents came from moderately wealthy middle-class society, each with strong Church of England connections.
Coles, Gladys Mary. The Flower of Light: A Biography of Mary Webb. Duckworth.
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Her parents farmed for pleasure...
Cultural formation Augusta Webster
She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was...
Cultural formation Julia Wedgwood
Her parents were connected to the Unitarian tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood as well as to the largely Anglican evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect centred close to their home in South London...
Cultural formation Fay Weldon
Brought up as an atheist, FW belonged for most of her life to no organized religion, but admitted to believing in manifestations like ghosts haunting the scenes of terrible or painful events (terrors in a...
Cultural formation Susanna Wesley
SW was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)...

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