Anglican Church

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...

KP came on both sides from middle-class Puritan English families. Though she married another Puritan, she grew increasingly Anglican and royalist. Though born a Londoner, she entered whole-heartedly into the Welsh identity...

Around the same time he took up again the Anglicanism of his childhood, this time in the form of the USEpiscopalian church. In this he was influenced at the time by such socially-conscious Christian...

Lady Elizabeth Cavendish's birth family was not remarkable for its piety, but she may have been an exception among them. As an unmarried girl she wrote her name in a copy of St Peter's Complaint...

Although brought up as a Protestant and confirmed while at school as an Anglican , IM later considered herself nothing more specific than a Christian fellow-traveller. At more than one stage of her life...

He was born into the northern English minor country gentry, but he grew up (as an Anglican ) in Ireland, spending his childhood and youth there.

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...

She was born into the urban middle class, of Welsh descent on at least her father's side. She seems to have been an Anglican , and was presumably white.

KE grew up an Anglican , but was clearly a religious seeker, since she joined the Baptists , then the Independents , before becoming one of the Society of Friends very soon after its inception...

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.

SP apparently grew up in the Church of England . Then, seeking a reformation in religion, admiring the non-established churches of New England, and looking, in the heady Civil War years, towards the idea...

She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...

Adela Cory's English parents were living in India at the time of her birth, as did many Britons throughout the period of British rule over the sub-continent. Her mother's family heritage was Irish. Adela was...

Charlotte was a member of the Scottish nobility on the side of her father (a duke). She had the example before her of her beautiful mother's dramatic rise into that class (from impoverished Irish gentry...

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.