Anglican Church

Public Morals proved sufficiently popular to be reprinted in 1908. Published on behalf of the National Social Purity Crusade , Public Morals was designed to provide a sound, readable textbook, explaining the duty of the...

She was born into an English, gentry, strongly Anglican family, whose influence remained an important factor all her life.

As a country clergyman's daughter SC was an Anglican of the English professional class. Her correspondence with John Wesley bears witness to the strength and immediacy of her Christian faith, but she did not agree...

She was born into a supportive, professional English family. Travel in France and exposure to the Oxford Movement made EC consider converting to the Roman Catholic Church later in life. However, she remained...

It tells in autobiographical style of the dangerous alternative seductions of loss of faith and of conversion from Anglicanism to Catholicism .

Born to a mother of French aristocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-class English family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court...

Growing up in an Anglican English farming family with philanthropic habits, CC supposedly became interested in emigration following her introduction to an injured soldier brought home by her father when she was a young child...

AC was an upper-middle-class Englishwoman whose father was American. She was a practising Anglican , although after her divorce she no longer took Communion.

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

As a peer's daughter who had no brother, LAC was highly privileged. She writes of her religion (Anglican ) as an important part of her education.

After taking his degree in 1842, he remained at Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel College . Religious doubts led him to resign his fellowship before he was required to take orders...

FPC waded into High Church debates over the Bible, challenging institutionalised forms of Christianity and the dogma of Infallible Inspiration, in her theological treatise Broken Lights, An Inquiry into the Present Condition and...

Raised as an Evangelical Christian , FPC later became the first heretic in her family, which boasted five archbishops and a bishop. She made a name for herself as a theist theologian, regularly attending Unitarian...

Her brothers were Charles Cobbe , born 1811 (who succeeded his father as landowner), Thomas Cobbe , born 1813 (who was called to the bar, wrote music, edited Shakespeare, and wrote novels and history, all...

According to Sally Mitchell , FPC herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm as she became immersed in the antivivisectionist cause. Charges of inaccuracy in her antivivisection writing came to...