Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Cultural formation Lucille Iremonger
She was born a Creole or white West Indian of English, Scottish, and French origins. She made her adult life as an Englishwoman. Her father was an Anglican while her mother was a bad Catholic...
Cultural formation Michèle Roberts
She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR implicitly admitted to being middle-class now.
Kenyon, Olga. Women Writers Talk. Interviews with 10 women writers. Lennard Publishing.
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Daughter of a French, Roman Catholic
Cultural formation Charlotte Lennox
Johnson, puzzlingly, wrote to CL in 1775 about her alleged indecencies with respect to religion.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 2, pp. 165-86.
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When this letter came into her hands she heavily obliterated the word indecencies, and substituted peculiarities.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 2, pp. 165-86.
174
Cultural formation Elizabeth Bentley
She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans .
Cultural formation Queen Victoria
Princess Alexandrina Victoria was confirmed an Anglican at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
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Cultural formation Ethel M. Dell
EMD was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant and her father a Catholic who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD adopted...
Cultural formation Mary Frere
MF belonged to the English professional upper classes, and was a devout Anglican .
Cultural formation Charlotte Yonge
CY 's immediate family and ancestors were devout English believers of the old High Church tradition of the Anglican faith which descended from the Non-Jurors of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She had a...
Cultural formation Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Ann Jebb
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 .
Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
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, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
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Cultural formation Frances Neville, Baroness Abergavenny
FNBA belonged to the English upper class, and to a network of relations who held or strove for power in the state. Judging by the known political allegiance of her eldest brother, she would have...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Thomas
She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she...
Cultural formation Phyllis Bottome
PB was the daughter of an Anglican minister. After a struggle between her High- and Low-Church training, PB was confirmed at her High Anglican or Episcopalian boarding school in New York. In her twenties...
Cultural formation Caroline Chisholm
Growing up in an Anglican English farming family with philanthropic habits, CC supposedly became interested in emigration following her introduction to an injured soldier brought home by her father when she was a young child...

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