Anglican Church

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...

SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .

Though she was an Anglican by birth and confirmation, her upbringing was not a religious one. Her father seems to have had a philosophical interest in religion, but he was far from devout. In his...

ML was baptised into the Church of England at five weeks old. Her early poetry speaks of belief in Father God, heaven, and Judgment Day.

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...

BC , English on both sides, claimed to be able to trace her paternal lineage to the fifteenth century and her maternal one to the eleventh. Her biographer, Tim Heald , however, points that her...

She was baptised in the Church of England but by 1912, MAD had converted to Catholicism . Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing.

Antonia converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a...

BP was brought up in the Church of England , and her family was active in their parish. Biographer Orphia Jane Allen comments that BP 's treatment of the Church of England in her...

EG came from the professional class, and from the special milieu of the theatre. She regarded herself as Irish, but lived much of her adult life in England and was of Welsh and English extraction...

DW was an Englishwoman born into the professional middle class. She was an Anglican in religion, who wrote: Life without God is meaningless—for me at any rate, and, during the first months of the...

FT 's opinion that church services should not be sensational foreshadows her famously strong reaction to what she perceived as the uncouth manners of Americans. One of her biographers writes that she was always specially...

CS 's family were Episcopalians , not members of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. She herself was a fervent Protestant and her evangelical bent can be felt in her books for children. However, in...

MR was confirmed as an Anglican , and enjoyed church ceremonies, but it was Plato 's belief in the individual which provided her with a lifelong ethical code. Later in life she discovered the works...

LA was a middle-classEnglishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was her...