Anglican Church

The ten-year-old Ethel Bryant (later EW ) was enrolled in Miss Jessie Gordon 's Anglican school for girls, Crofton House in Vancouver.

JSW published an earnest novel of religious pathos, The Soul of the Bishop, in which true love proves unequal to bridging the gap between the heroine's agnosticism and the bishop's broad-church, Latitudinarian, Anglican faith...

She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine ),

Ellen Price was a middle-class Englishwoman from a prominent business family, presumably white, and was brought up an Anglican ; her father had a particular interest in questions of church doctrine. Her early years were...

Having Cyras seek his fortune in New Zealand gives EW occasion to comment on the apparent vulgarity of the English born in the colonies. When he goes to the Haymarket Theatre with one such woman...

Though born in Lisbon, she came from a presumably white, Anglican , English, high-ranking military family, and moved in upper-class circles. Her family were of the squirearchy and their name was derived from the...

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. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...

She followed this with nearly fifty novels of domestic, religious, and improving fiction. Although many of her works have romance elements, her style in general was regarded as wholesome. She is generally sympathetic to...

The Athenæum's review commended EJW for handling her subject matter skilfully and for being always honest, womanly and motherly. The reviewer affirmed that she offered sound advice in her proper sphere...

The Mylnes had had charge of their brother during the years following their parents' deaths. The two Wright girls lived with them and their five children in a small college house. James Mylne was...

From a family which was financially precarious though middle-class by birth, MW seems to have questioned the religious fervour typical of its other members (at first Anglican , in due course Methodist ), while also...

AY seems as an adult to have moved away from the Anglican religion in which she was brought up. She kept several of her children unbaptised for years after their births, and her poetry lacks...

CY was confirmed in the Church of England after several months of instruction from TractarianJohn Keble .

CY 's immediate family and ancestors were devout English believers of the old High Church tradition of the Anglican faith which descended from the Non-Jurors of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She had a...

The third great influence on CY 's life was John Keble , the Tractarian churchman. He was already famous when he became a regular visitor in the home of the twelve-year-old Charlotte, though they had...