Anglican Church

George Hickes included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH to Henry Turberville on choosing the Anglican over...

The class difference between this pair is figured in the religion of their respective fathers, which each has rejected. Colthurst's father was a fashionable preacher who regularly packed his Anglican church; Jenny's is an ex-seaman...

A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...

The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland in about 1660.

Throughout her life ECK associated with the highest English society, at first through connections of her father and later as a result of her years of royal service to Princess Charlotte . Her family lived...

Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...

Born into the English middle class, PDJ was a believing Anglican whose religious commitment was unaffected by her ability to cast a disenchanted eye on the workings of the Church of England as an institution.

By the time May was old enough to make her social debut, her mother was too tired and too lacking in interest to find the time and money necessary to introduce her daughter to society...

While at her garden altar, she experienced a confused sense of something wrong with her worship and so her kept her rituals a profound secret from her parents. Guilt eventually drove her to destroy...

Brought up in the established church , GE became, as a result of her own reading and thinking, from the age of fifteen to twenty-two an Evangelical (although still Anglican) and later an agnostic who...

She was a middle-class Englishwoman, fervently Evangelical and in sympathy with Dissenters , who nevertheless continued to attend or at least embrace the sacraments of the Anglican church .

SS was a Welshwoman but with strong ties to England, belonging to the professional classes but accustomed to the stigma of Nonconformity in a society where the Established Church was a vital plank in the...

Despite her clear statement of her father's Jewish ethnicity (and his Portuguese national heritage: she calls herself the daughter of a Portugueze), she was baptised into the Church of England on 4...

Johnson, puzzlingly, wrote to CL in 1775 about her alleged indecencies with respect to religion. When this letter came into her hands she heavily obliterated the word indecencies, and substituted peculiarities.

Of Irish and English descent, Emily was raised in the Church of England as the daughter of a clergyman. Almost nothing is known directly of her personality and opinions; one biographer characterizes her as secretive...