Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Cultural formation Margaret Bryan
On the publication of her first book, the Critical Review implied that some of her opinions sounded like those of a Catholic . Defending herself, MB claimed to be irreproachably orthodox, that is Anglican ...
Cultural formation Mary Countess Cowper
MCC was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England .
Cultural formation Evelyn Underhill
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...
Cultural formation Sarah Lady Cowper
SLC was a fervent Anglican : her husband felt her piety would wear out a parson, let alone a man of some religious scepticism like himself.
Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002.
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When in 1701 she met the free-thinking philosopher...
Cultural formation Mary Julia Young
MJY 's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England and...
Cultural formation Muriel Spark
MS was baptised into the Anglican Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes , a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
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Walker, Dorothea. Muriel Spark. Twayne, 1988.
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Whittaker, Ruth. The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark. Macmillan, 1982.
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Cultural formation Radagunda Roberts
She seems to have been of Welsh extraction, and was presumably white. Her brothers had solid professional careers; she presumably belonged, like others of her family, to the Church of England .
Cultural formation Emily Gerard
She was born into the Scottish gentry, and her family originally belonged to the Scottish Episcopalian Church , which is to say they were Anglican. Following her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism , EG and...
Cultural formation Anna Mary Howitt
AMH practised spirit drawing (letting invisible spirits guide her hand) and automatic or spirit writing; spiritualism also led her to vegetarianism. But she and her husband remained in the Church of England despite their belief...
Cultural formation Philip Larkin
Born English, with a successful professional father who had risen socially by his own efforts, baptised as an Anglican , PL became in maturity an Anglican agnostic. He was an unbeliever, yet both knowledgeable...
Cultural formation Frances Bellerby
She was brought up in the Anglican church, but very definitely as one of the Anglo-Catholic minority. After her brother's death she turned against religion.
Cultural formation Ada Cambridge
Critics Margaret Bradstock and Louise Wakeling write that AC 's faith was strongly challenged by the deaths of her first two children: this was probably . . . the beginning of her questioning of Divine...
Cultural formation Anna Wheeler
AW came from a wealthy and socially prominent Protestant Irish landowning family; she was the god-daughter of the Irish nationalist Henry Grattan . Her family life was intellectual and enlightened, as well as prosperous: the...
Cultural formation E. M. Delafield
After she married and had children, EMD converted to the Anglican faith.
Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann, 1988.
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