Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Anne Francis
Daughter, wife, and mother of clergymen, AF was English, Anglican , and presumably white.
Cultural formation John Millington Synge
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...
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 Naomi Royde-Smith
Born into the professional middle class, NRS had a Welsh mother and an English father. An obituarist wrote: She had Welsh mysticism and Yorkshire good sense in her veins.
Speaight, Robert. “Naomi Royde-Smith”. The Tablet, Vol.
218
, No. 6481, 8 Aug. 1964, p. 21.
She became a central and well-known...
Cultural formation Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny
FNBA belonged to the English upper class, and to a network of relations who held or strove for power in the state. Judging by the known political allegiance of her eldest brother, she would have...
Cultural formation Mary Prince
MP was baptised a Christian by an Anglican clergyman, James Curtin ; though empowered to baptise her in the name of the Trinity, he would not let her attend his Sunday school without her owner's permission.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
73-4
Cultural formation Phyllis Bottome
PB was confirmed into the Anglican Church while attending St John the Baptist School in New York City.
Bottome, Phyllis. Search for a Soul. Reynal and Hitchcock, 1948.
210-14, 216
Cultural formation Charlotte Guest
CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...
Cultural formation Georgiana Chatterton
Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court.
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
7-19
As...
Cultural formation Emma Caroline Wood
Though born in Lisbon, she came from a presumably white, Anglican , English, high-ranking military family, and moved in upper-class circles. Her family were of the squirearchy and their name was derived from the...
Cultural formation Lucie Duff Gordon
Lucie Austin (later LDG ) was baptised and confirmed as an Anglican on the last Sunday of the year; she was sixteen.
Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1-17.
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Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
95
Cultural formation Evelyn Underhill
EU returned actively to the Church ofEngland , in which she had been baptised and confirmed. Fourteen years earlier the move would have been unthinkable, as she could not then accept Anglican teachings.
Greene, Dana. Evelyn Underhill: Artist of the Infinite Life. Crossroad, 1990.
74
Cultural formation Penelope Lively
PL is, she says, an agnostic. She came out as such at around fifteen to her grandmother (a keen Anglican whose religion involved a commitment to serving the local community). She explained that she assented...
Cultural formation Anna Steele
Her heritage was English: her mother 's family name, Michell, was said to derive from a village near St Columb Major in Cornwall, now spelled Mitchell. Both sides of Steel's family were presumably white...
Cultural formation Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion, 1976.
59
Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...

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