Anglican Church

She created her own, millenarian religious sect after the Methodists and the Church of England (both of whose services she attended) had rebuffed her unconventional advances. She is, however, often associated with the Methodists.

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...

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...

MP came from the English middle class, and was born into the Anglican church. After an early disregard for religion, then a long period of spiritual struggle, she became a Quaker .

SW was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)...

FRH grew up in a pious Anglican family, and was later deeply religious herself, as evident in her writings. She developed an interest in the Church Missionary Society (as well as its Irish counterpart), the...

Religion, too, became important to PHJ in her youth. Though she notes a streak of emotional Calvinism in herself, she loved the music and ritual of the Broad Church Anglican services to which her...

She was christened on 11 September 1844 at Christchurch Greyfriars in London. Her family belonged to the English middle class and was presumably white. After an Anglican upbringing, she moved away from conventional religious...

She came from an upper middle-class business family whose background included Quaker and Anglican elements. She staunchly upheld the class system, identifying herself with the upper classes. As an adult, she assumed an anti-suffrage stance...

LM was born into the English professional class or intelligentsia. She grew up in the heart of the Church of England , but later, despite the irreverence with which her writings handle religious topics, converted...

During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...

ED was unusual in her combination of conservatism and feminism. She was a strong supporter of the Conservative Party and the Establishment, and sought members of the Church and nobility for her committees.

The child of wealthy English Anglican family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an...

CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .

MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...