Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Frances Arabella Rowden
FAR came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican in religion. Mary Russell Mitford represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were...
Cultural formation E. A. Dillwyn
EAD came from an upper-middle-class, Liberal, Welsh, presumably white family. Her paternal grandfather had been a Quaker , but he had left the Society of Friends to marry a non-Quaker woman. Their children were born...
Cultural formation Joan Whitrow
JW , a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as...
Cultural formation Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT came from a large, highly literate, dynamic, Anglican family that enjoyed the London social scene. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant who had spent much of his adult life in India. Her pseudonym...
Cultural formation Jan Morris
She asserted that she had never been a believing Christian, though she was steeped in the music and architecture of Anglicanism and the culture of Christianity in general.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.
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She voiced her adult beliefs as:...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Bowen
EB 's parents were Anglo-Irish landowners; hers was an upper-middle-class, Protestant Unionist family. Her paternal ancestors, the apOwens, had come to Ireland from Wales with Oliver Cromwell's army at the time of the English Civil...
Cultural formation Stevie Smith
SS belonged to the English middle class. Her religious background was Anglican , but as her biographer Frances Spalding notes, she was an agnostic who could not entirely abandon belief in a God of Love...
Cultural formation Mary Lady Chudleigh
In her later life MLC was an earnestly Anglican Englishwoman; she came from the gentry class. Yet her family partook significantly of Dissenting and anti-monarchist traditions.
Cultural formation Charlotte Riddell
CR said I may fairly claim to be English, Scotch, and Irish.
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Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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She was, however, of the Irish or Anglo-Irish gentry by predominant heritage, a Londoner by adoption, an Anglican in religion, and presumumably...
Cultural formation Maria Edgeworth
She was Anglo-Irish, born into the Protestant (Church of Ireland ) land-owning class. This group at this date produced a number of individuals who sought the political, religious, and technological reform of Irish society...
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, 1966–2025, 16 vols.
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Cultural formation Kate Parry Frye
Kate Parry Frye, suffrage organizer, playwright, and prolific diarist, was English (with some Scottish antecedents), middle-class, and presumably white. She was a conventional Anglican church-goer, but was excited after the war by the preaching of...
Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
Her family were Unitarian s but her father converted to the Church of England . She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of...
Cultural formation Anne Audland
Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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