Anglican Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Pamela Frankau
The Times obituary of PF describes her as coming from a gifted Jewish family
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(9 June 1967): 12
on her father's side, but it was not an observant family. G. B. Stern refers to PF
Cultural formation Frances Notley
FN 's christening in the Church of England is listed as having taken place at Old St Pancras Church in London on 24 January 1843. If there is no mistake in this record, her being...
Cultural formation Joan Vokins
Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.
qtd. in
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
216
Cultural formation Elizabeth Strutt
ES appears to have been securely rooted in the English middle class, presumably white, and evidently from her later writings an Anglican .
Cultural formation Annabella Plumptre
AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and her sister Anne , she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism .
Plumptre, Anne. “Introduction”. Something New, edited by Deborah McLeod, Broadview, 1996, p. vii - xxix.
viii and n4
Cultural formation Maude Royden
Her religious upbringing provided some exposure to Catholicism, which attracted her. By her mid-twenties she found herself in much perplexity about my religion . . . and I could not find rest for my soul...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Hamilton
She grew up Anglican like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian , so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her...
Cultural formation Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic priest, but found it unsatisfying.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000.
222
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
24
Having read an essay by Thomas Carlyle during the Christmas...
Cultural formation Catharine Macaulay
CM was an Anglican with strong ties to Dissenting reformers. Her outspoken comments on religious matters made many people suppose that she was a sceptic, but this seems not to have been the case. Later...
Cultural formation Fleur Adcock
This Anglican , of a kind
Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press, 1983.
44
(still a church-goer) salutes the Presbyterian ancestors whose graves she failed to find, attends a service in a Belfast Free Church, but finds that the anti-popery sermon makes...
Cultural formation Phyllis Bottome
PB was the daughter of an Anglican minister. After a struggle between her High- and Low-Church training, PB was confirmed at her High Anglican or Episcopalian boarding school in New York. In her twenties...
Cultural formation Caroline Chisholm
Growing up in an Anglican Englishfarming family with philanthropic habits, CC supposedly became interested in emigration following her introduction to an injured soldier brought home by her father when she was a young child. The...
Cultural formation Lucie Duff Gordon
Despite her mother's Unitarian influence, LDG never entirely conformed to any denomination in her religious beliefs. Even at the age of fourteen she maintained her own views: my religion was that of the birds and...
Cultural formation Githa Sowerby
GS 's father's family had been in the glass manufacturing business for several generations. The business was at its peak in her early years and her family was rich and respected. But its empire-building days...
Cultural formation Margaret Roberts
She grew up as a member of the Church of England .

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