Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Florence Farr
Brought up as an Anglican , she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn and then in the...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Radcliffe
MAR 's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church and she was herself baptised as an Anglican.
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.
Cultural formation Agnes Giberne
AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...
Cultural formation Sophia Hume
SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .
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.
Cultural formation Anna Margaretta Larpent
AML was born in the English gentry or professional class, with close connections to Hungarian nobility. In religion she was a pious, serious-minded Anglican .
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press.
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Most diary entries for the year 1790 open: Rose...
Cultural formation Margaret Minifie
The Minifies had bought Fairwater House (now rebuilt and forming part of Taunton School ) in the early eighteenth century. They belonged to the Church of England and to the gentry or professional class. Margaret...
Cultural formation Emilie Barrington
She came from an upper middle-class business family whose background included Quaker and Anglican elements. She staunchly upheld the class system, identifying herself with the upper classes. As an adult, she assumed an anti-suffrage stance...
Cultural formation Mary Butts
During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...
Cultural formation Emily Davies
ED was unusual in her combination of conservatism and feminism. She was a strong supporter of the Conservative Party and the Establishment, and sought members of the Church and nobility for her committees.
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press.
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Cultural formation Anne Francis
Daughter, wife, and mother of clergymen, AF was English, Anglican , and presumably white.
Cultural formation Margaret Roberts
She grew up as a member of the Church of England .
Cultural formation Julia Stretton
She was born into the English middle class, and became a sincere and earnest Anglican . She grew up in an industrial, working-class area, in which her family was clearly marked out as superior to...
Cultural formation Noel Streatfeild
NS 's family were professional Anglican s in two senses: her father and both grandfathers were clergymen. Her parents brought their children up with formal family prayers every morning. On Sundays they attended church twice...
Cultural formation Margaret Veley
MV 's middle-class Anglican family had both English and Swiss forebears. It had all the conservatism common to this group in society; Margaret defined her own liberal and independent thinking against that of her family.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, p. vii - xxiv.
vii, ix

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