Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Buchi Emecheta
BE 's mother eventually became a Christian. BE is herself an Anglican .
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994.
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Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research, 1991.
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Cultural formation Martha Hale
She belonged to the English gentry class and to the Church of England
Cultural formation Anna Letitia Waring
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.
Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
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Cultural formation Alice Thornton
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.
Thornton, Alice. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton. Editor Jackson, Charles, 1809 - 1882, Published for the Society by Andrews, 1875.
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Cultural formation Anna Seward
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.
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Cultural formation Margaret Bryan
On the publication of her first book, the Critical Review implied that some of her opinions sounded like those of a Catholic . Defending herself, MB claimed to be irreproachably orthodox, that is Anglican ...
Cultural formation Mary Countess Cowper
MCC was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England .
Cultural formation Mary Penington
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 .
Cultural formation Frances Ridley Havergal
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...
Cultural formation Pamela Hansford Johnson
Religion, too, became important to PHJ in her youth. Though she notes a streak of emotional Calvinism
Johnson, Pamela Hansford. Important to Me. Macmillan; Scribner, 1974.
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in herself, she loved the music and ritual of the Broad Church Anglican services to which her...
Cultural formation Lucas Malet
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...
Cultural formation Ann Yearsley
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...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Strickland
Her High Anglican family was well-positioned in the English middle class at the time of her birth, but although her father had aspirations to rise higher, the opposite happened. They became more and more short...
Cultural formation Ada Cambridge
AC worshipped in the AnglicanChurch both as a child and adult, and her early novellas, hymns, and poems emphasize her strong religious faith.
Bradstock, Margaret, and Louise Wakeling. Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. Penguin, 1991.
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In middle life, probably owing to the deaths of her first...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Delaval
ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...

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