Anglican Church

Connections

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Cultural formation Louisa Anne Meredith
LAM had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English...
Cultural formation Eliza Meteyard
EM came from a professional Anglican family. She was an advocate of social reform, particularly of educational reform, and of wider roles for women.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe
She also became increasingly preoccupied with the Evangelical movement within the Church ofEngland . Her continuing interest in UpperCanada included funding Anglican missionary work there and paying for the English university education of several promising...
Cultural formation Samuel Beckett
The Becketts were of middle-class, solidly protestant, Anglo-Irish stock.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Samuel's mother's family were a little higher socially than his father's, but his father was both popular and financially successful.
Bair, Deirdre. Samuel Beckett: A Biography. Vintage, 1990.
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SB regarded himself as an...
Cultural formation Maria Callcott
MC was of American-Scottish heritage. She was remarkably open-minded about religion, and supported the disestablishment of the Anglican church.
Gotch, Rosamund Brunel. Maria, Lady Callcott, The Creator of ’Little Arthur’. J. Murray, 1937.
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Cultural formation Ann Gomersall
AG appears to have come from the English middle class, perhaps the urban middle class, and to have been, at least late in life, a pious and active Christian. Her works show her to be...
Cultural formation Sarah Davy
SD , apparently by birth an Englishwoman of the middling ranks and an Anglican , converted, as one of the most significant actions of her life, to join an Independent or Baptist congregation. Some modern...
Cultural formation Lucy Hutton
She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of...
Cultural formation Margaret Forster
As a child she knelt at bedtime to say her prayers: she loved praying and did it with great intensity. After the regulation Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, she would talk to Jesus (rather than...
Cultural formation Dorothy Leigh
DL came from the English gentry class. She was anti-Catholic, leaning towards the Puritan arm of the Anglican church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Mary Tighe
MT 's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland .
Cultural formation Anna Sewell
After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker and Rousseauvian values...
Cultural formation Barbara Blaugdone
She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and...
Cultural formation C. E. Plumptre
CEP abandoned the Anglican ism of her family and had an early interest in Pantheism, but ultimately she became an agnostic.
Gould, Frederick James. Chats with Pioneers of Modern Thought. Watts, 1898.
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Cultural formation Sarah Chapone
As a country clergyman's daughter SC was an Anglican of the English professional class. Her correspondence with John Wesley bears witness to the strength and immediacy of her Christian faith, but she did not agree...

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