Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Rose Macaulay
Over the course of her life, RM 's religious practices ranged between Anglican and Anglo-agnostic. She was initially given instruction in the Anglican faith by her mother. As an early adolescent (like George Eliot 's...
Cultural formation E. Nesbit
EN was born in the English middle class (though she had some Irish and Swedish blood) and brought up as an Anglican . She became a socialist and a feminist, although with some reservations and...
Cultural formation W. H. Auden
Born English, to what he later described book-loving, Anglo-Catholic parents of the professional class,
qtd. in
Spears, Monroe K. The Poetry of W.H. Auden. The Disenchanted Island. Oxford University Press, 1968.
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he shed his religious belief at about thirteen, well after his recognition of his own homosexuality, and later still acquired...
Cultural formation Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater
Elizabeth Cavendish (later Lady Bridgewater) was born into the English, monarchist nobility, and married within it too. In later life, as her writings make clear, she was passionately committed to her Protestant, Anglican faith.
Cultural formation Ivy Compton-Burnett
Both parents came from Dissenting backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist . She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican church, chose from an...
Cultural formation Olaudah Equiano
At Cadiz in Spain, OE had a spiritual reawakening which he calls conversion, after which he worshipped as a Methodist as well as an Anglican . His conversion came as the climax and resolution...
Cultural formation Ethel Lilian Voynich
English-identified despite her Irish birth and cosmopolitan interests, and presumably white, she came from the intelligentsia although her family was very poor. By the time of her ninety-fifth birthday, after nearly forty years residence in...
Cultural formation Jan Struther
JS was born to an upper-class family, and later felt that her childhood friendships with the household servants had awakened in her a sense of social justice and protest. Ironically, she came to be widely...
Cultural formation Maude Royden
MR grew up in a Conservative, Anglican family of wealthy English shipyard owners.
Ceadel, Martin. Pacifism in Britain, 1914-1945 : The Defining of a Faith. Clarendon, 1980, http://U of A HSS.
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In 1922 she said, I was born a woman and I can't get over it.
qtd. in
Fletcher, Sheila. Maude Royden: A Life. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
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Cultural formation Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Margaret Holford
Her parents belonged securely to the minor English gentry; her husband followed a profession as a clergyman of the Church of England , to which she presumably belonged.
Cultural formation Annie Keary
Her mother and father were respectively northern English and Irish ascendency. Both came from the gentry class and seem to have been white. Brought up in the Church of England , AK was a deeply...
Cultural formation Damaris Masham
She was an Anglican : questioning on issues of religion, but a firm believer. Historian Karen O'Brien places her as a late Latudinarian, belonging to a group within the Church of England which was...
Cultural formation Frances Burney
FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Cultural formation Charlotte Yonge
CY 's immediate family and ancestors were devout English believers of the old High Church tradition of the Anglican faith which descended from the Non-Jurors of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She had a...

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