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...

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 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...

WP's EvangelicalAnglican parents never frightened their children with talk of hell-fire, though from their nurse and the books read aloud by their governess she and her siblings imbibed a fear of damnation and...

Born into the English peerage, Frances married into its topmost ranks. She was a devout Anglican all her life, brought up in the Non-juring tradition but latterly embracing an earnest and consistent Evangelicism. She took...

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection, and an Irish, originally Catholic, father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches)...

She belonged to the English upper or upper-middle class, and by religion to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England. She never married or had her own children, though she adopted and cared...

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism, but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...

BC, English on both sides, claimed to be able to trace her paternal lineage to the fifteenth century and her maternal one to the eleventh. Her biographer, Tim Heald, however, points that her...

She was baptised in the Church of England but by 1912, MAD had converted to Catholicism. Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing.

Antonia converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a...

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.

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.