Anglican Church

Born into the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy (of a family with close ties on both sides to the Anglican, that is Protestant, Church ofIreland ), JMS grew up in his mother's atmosphere of Calvinistic fervour. He...

Alice Thompson (later AM ) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English...

AW was a Welshwoman born into a professional family deep in the Pembrokeshire countryside. Belief in second sight flourished there, and it seems that AW herself as an adult (though a devout Anglican ) believed...

CB grew up as an English upper-class child, attending the local Anglican Church . Her family had many servants, including a coachman, a housekeeper, two housemaids, a nurse and a cook. They also owned several...

The household was quite evangelical , owing to the influence of Emily's father, but she herself leaned in adulthood towards the Christian socialism of F. D. Maurice . She found in...

MF came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican .

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...

While working for the Daily HeraldGHS developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard , who was one influence towards her conversion to...

She belonged to the English professional class, and was presumably white and a member of the Church of England .

She came from an English, presumably white, middle-class, Anglican family. As an adult she became an agnostic, and also entertained an interest in spiritualism.

EI took after her mother in being personally very devout as an adult, though she was nearly twenty when for the first time she aprehended or took seriously to heart a sermon as applying to...

From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.

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...

The third great influence on CY 's life was John Keble , the Tractarian churchman. He was already famous when he became a regular visitor in the home of the twelve-year-old Charlotte, though they had...

IB came from an English, professional, upper-middle-class family background, strongly religious in the Evangelical wing of the Church ofEngland . She grew up in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment.