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...

MM lays proud stress on her gentle birth. She is equally positive, however, in her sentiments about the marriages which allied her with a different rank, that of the mercantile bourgeoisie of London. She was...

ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.

She was a devout Anglican . In 1631, as a small child, she underwent a kind of conversion experience: it pleased God to come into my soule by some beames of his mercy.

AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...

AS belonged to the Anglican genteel or middle ranks. She had small tolerance for Dissenters. Critic Harriet Guest summarizes her political position as polite and provincial whiggery.

SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .

ML was baptised into the Church of England at five weeks old. Her early poetry speaks of belief in Father God, heaven, and Judgment Day.

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...

Her forebears on both sides were Unitarian but, at her mother's urging, the family became Anglican to match their social class. Despite the public conversion, William Nightingale held strongly to his Unitarian background and was...

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...