Anglican Church

EC was an English, middle-class Anglican .

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...

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

Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters . The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...

Her upbringing in a professional, Tory, English family was surprisingly unconventional: she was encouraged to roam freely with her brother, to read widely . . . and forbidden to wear restrictive clothing. Although her father...

Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...

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...

HM had almost no contact with the Methodists, but despite her strong commitment to the Church of England she was broadly tolerant of classical Nonconformity . During the Blagdon controversy she admitted in a letter...

She was confirmed in the Church of England , noticing the formalistic, bureaucratic way this was carried out.

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.

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

GJ was born to middle-class, presumably white, English parents who were members of the Church of England .

From this date Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) took a decision against participation in Anglican church rituals, and declined to attend church with her father.

CL was born into the English ruling class and baptised into the Church ofEngland . She became a vegetarian in her twenties, for moral and compassionate as well as for health reasons. Not until...

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...