Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Elizabeth Carter
EC was an English, middle-class Anglican .
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 Margaret Gatty
She was born into an English, presumably white, strongly Anglican family of the professional class. Male members of her family on both sides had risen in their professions through sheer ability, and there was a...
Cultural formation Mary Penington
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...
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, 1964.
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Cultural formation Ann Hawkshaw
As the daughter of a dissenting clergyman, AH was born into an English, middle-class, and presumably white family. Her father's parents were described in one source as of respectable character and station, engaged in agricultural...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Strickland
Elizabeth, while remaining a practising Anglican , became remarkable for her capacity to think herself into the mindset of British Roman Catholics at a time when the generally dominant party in England saw them as...
Cultural formation Samuel Johnson
SJ was a passionate, perhaps a bigoted, Anglican , who was never until very late in life able to believe in the likelihood of his own salvation. In matters involving religion (including issues of gender...
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 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 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 Anna Williams
When AW felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England 's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, The Hyde Edition, Princeton University Press, 1992–1994, 5 vols.
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Cultural formation Anna Williams
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...
Cultural formation Mary Palmer
MP was born into the English rural professional class on the fringes of the gentry, and was a member of the Church of England .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir Joshua Reynolds
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH was baptised into the Church ofEngland . Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family...

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