Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Lady Rachel Russell
LRR was born to an English father and French mother, both of the nobility. She was a devout Anglican .
Cultural formation Rachel Hunter
From her writings, it appears that she was a member of the merchant or trading classes, of Anglican religion and conservative political opinions.
Cultural formation Caroline Leakey
CL was a member of a pious middle-class evangelical Anglican family who were presumably white and of English descent. She herself was a devoted Christian who participated in evangelical and missionary endeavours.
Walker, Shirley. “Wild and Wilful Women: Caroline Leakey and The Broad ArrowA Bright and Fiery Troop, edited by Debra Adelaide, Penguin Books Australia, 1988, pp. 85-99.
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Pike, Douglas, editor. Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press, 1966–2024, 16 vols.
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Cultural formation Mary Frances Billington
English by birth and presumably white, she was raised in the Church of England , a religious upbringing that reflected her father's and grandfather's occupations as Church of England clergymen.
Tuson, Penelope. The Queen’s Daughters: An Anthology of Victorian Feminist Writings on India, 1857-1900. Ithaca Press, 1995, http://University of Waterloo - Porter.
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From her final book-length...
Cultural formation Margaret Cavendish
She has sometimes been said to be a Catholic (perhaps because her husband's family had long had leanings that way); but she was an Anglican who explained in her Philosophical Letters that she followed the...
Cultural formation James Anthony Froude
He gradually lost faith in High Church tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle . JAF was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and...
Cultural formation Alison Uttley
She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose...
Cultural formation Flora Annie Steel
The Webster children were baptised Presbyterian s, as befitted their Scottish heritage, but attended the local Anglican parish church. Flora was the only one of the family to be confirmed as an Anglican.
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981.
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Cultural formation Hannah More
HM had almost no contact with the Methodists, but despite her strong commitment to the Church of England she was broadly tolerant of classical Nonconformity . During the Blagdon controversy she admitted in a letter...
Cultural formation Eleanor Anne Porden
EAB was baptised into the Church of England . Her religious belief was broad-minded, liberal, tolerant. Faced with the Evangelical tendencies of the family of her future husband, who disapproved of many of her Sunday...
Cultural formation Anne Halkett
Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class.
Halkett, Anne et al. “The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 9-87.
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AH was a...
Cultural formation Jean Rhys
JR was at one time attracted to Catholicism , mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns
Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. 1st ed., Deutsch, 1979.
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Cultural formation Mary Penington
In youth she acquired the habit of walking several miles each week to hear a Puritan preacher. When she was married, she and her husband considered leaving the Anglican church for the Independents, but decided...
Cultural formation Ann Hawkshaw
As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural...
Cultural formation Samuel Johnson
SJ was a passionate, perhaps a bigoted, Anglican , who was never until very late in life able to believe in the likelihood of his own salvation. In matters involving religion (including issues of gender...

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