Anglican Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Clara Balfour
Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England , she later converted and joined the Baptists with the rest of her family in 1840.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Jane Lead
Pordage was an Anglican clergyman; but he and his wife were radicals. He was said to be much against property, and against relations of magistrates, subjects, husbands, wives, masters, servants, etc. He was one of...
Cultural formation Rhoda Broughton
RB was presumably white, and was born into an Anglican , upper-middle-class family, with an English father and Irish mother. She grew up at Broughton Hall near Eccleshall in Staffordshire, an Elizabethan manor house...
Cultural formation Susanna Moodie
Religion was a source of conflict in SM 's personal life and in her husband's professional life. An early relationship with a Nonconformist distanced SM from the high Anglican tradition embraced by her parents and...
Cultural formation Emma Jane Worboise
The Literary World was apparently mistaken in calling EJWthe novelist of Evangelical Dissent and in speculating as to whether or not she ever left the Anglican Church.
qtd. in
Melnyk, Julie. “Evangelical Theology and Feminist Polemic: Emma Jane Worboises OverdaleWomens Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, Garland, 1998, pp. 107-22.
109
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
Cultural formation Christopher St John
At some point after CSJ met her long-time partner Edith Craig , she converted from her family's Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time. W.W. Norton, 1987.
389
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
250
Cultural formation Mary Prince
The Methodist Church had broken away from the Church of England in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean.
Cultural formation Susannah Gunning
SG came from the English, presumably white, gentry or professional class, and married into an Irish gentry family which was just securing ties, through socially upward marriage, with the nobility. She belonged to the Church of England
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.
4-5
SB regarded himself as an...
Cultural formation Anne Locke
AL was born into the flourishing urban bourgeoisie of her time. She was apparently English, though the names of both her parents suggest Welsh extraction. Her father said he was neither Lutheran nor yet Tyndalin...
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.
4, 159, 285
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 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 Sarah Wentworth Morton
SWM , born into a comfortable rank in British colonial society, became a proud American. She was proud also of her father's Welsh heritage.
Pendleton, Emily, and Milton Ellis. Philenia. University of Maine Press, 1931.
13, 16, 18
Her Lines to the Mansion of My Ancestors...
Cultural formation Menella Bute Smedley
As a curate's daughter, MBS belonged to the middle class and the established religion , but grew up in a kind of genteel poverty because of her father's increasing disability.
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.

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