Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Queen Elizabeth I
Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...
Cultural formation Jane Williams
Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist ancestors...
Cultural formation Dorothy Osborne
She was an Anglican from the English gentry class.
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland in about 1660.
Cultural formation Joanna Southcott
She created her own, millenarian religious sect after the Methodists and the Church of England (both of whose services she attended) had rebuffed her unconventional advances. She is, however, often associated with the Methodists.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
47, 58, 35
Cultural formation Ellis Cornelia Knight
Throughout her life ECK associated with the highest English society, at first through connections of her father and later as a result of her years of royal service to Princess Charlotte . Her family lived...
Cultural formation P. D. James
Born into the English middle class, PDJ was a believing Anglican whose religious commitment was unaffected by her ability to cast a disenchanted eye on the workings of the Church of England as an institution.
Ashby, Melanie. “P. D. James Talks to Melanie Ashby”. Mslexia, Vol.
14
, 1 June–30 Nov. 2002, pp. 39-40.
40
Cultural formation Frances Brooke
FB was from an upper-middle class English family in which many men were Anglican clergymen. The family's social position meant that, as a child, she enjoyed the luxury of self-education in libraries collected by her...
Cultural formation Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...
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 Susanna Wesley
SW was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Despite her clear statement of her father's Jewish ethnicity (and his Portuguese national heritage: she calls herself the daughter of a Portugueze),
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Wanderings of the Imagination. B. Crosby, 1796, 2 vols.
1: 9
she was baptised into the Church of England on 4...
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 Edith J. Simcox
She was christened on 11 September 1844 at Christchurch Greyfriars in London. Her family belonged to the English middle class and was presumably white. After an Anglican upbringing, she moved away from conventional religious...
Cultural formation Charlotte Lennox
Johnson, puzzlingly, wrote to CL in 1775 about her alleged indecencies with respect to religion.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 2, Apr. 1971, pp. 165-86.
174
When this letter came into her hands she heavily obliterated the word indecencies, and substituted peculiarities.
Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection (Continued)”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
19
, No. 2, Apr. 1971, pp. 165-86.
174

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