Anglican Church

FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...

She grew up in a pious Anglican household, and confirmed into the Church at thirteen. She also loved visiting the poor, and giving them money when she had any; and she was upset when...

AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and sister Bell , she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism .

She was born into the English professional class, with connections in the nobility, and brought up in the Anglican church. As an adult she became, like her husband, an early Unitarian .

Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...

Her family had been Roman Catholic back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.EL , however, came from a liberal Unitarian background: her father (to whom...

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...

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...

FB was from an upper-middle class English family in which many men were Anglican clergymen. The family's social position meant that, as a child, she enjoyed the luxury of self-education in libraries collected by her...

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...

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 )...

Brought up as an Anglican , she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn and then in the...

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...

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...