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Cultural formation | Harriet Downing | She seems to have belonged to the upper range of the English middle classes; she had at least an impressive array of contacts, shown in her subscription lists. Baptised into the Church of England
... |
Cultural formation | Fay Weldon | Brought up as an atheist, FW
belonged for most of her life to no organized religion, but admitted to believing in manifestations like ghosts haunting the scenes of terrible or painful events (terrors in a... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Trimmer | Born into the English professional class, she was a fevent Anglican
, godly from her childhood onwards. |
Cultural formation | Jan Morris | She asserted that she had never been a believing Christian, though she was steeped in the music and architecture of Anglicanism
and the culture of Christianity in general. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016. 5 |
Cultural formation | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
was born to middle-class, presumably white, English parents who were members of the Church of England
. Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 38 Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996. 216 |
Cultural formation | Constance Lytton | CL
was born into the English ruling class and baptised into the Church ofEngland
. She became a vegetarian in her twenties, for moral and compassionate as well as for health reasons. Lytton, Constance. Prisons and Prisoners. Heinemann, 1914. 2 |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Elstob | She was a middle-class, English, presumably white, High Tory Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | At about the same time, too, she gradually adopted a personal commitment to Christianity
, with the help of her Anglican
parish priest, Joost de Blank
. De-la-Noy, Michael. “Obituary. Monica Furlong”. The Guardian, 17 Jan. 2003. |
Cultural formation | Mary Augusta Ward | She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Thomas | She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican
in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Scott | She was born into an English land-owning family. As an adult, she was a devout and active Anglican
. |
Cultural formation | Constance Naden | She was baptised into the Church of England
but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist
chapels. CN
later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of... |
Cultural formation | Sarah Pearson | She belonged to the (presumably white) English, Anglican
, middling ranks. The idea that she was a servant and a Baptist has arisen from confusion with Susanna (Flinders) Pearson. Basker, James G., editor. Amazing Grace. Yale University Press, 2002. 412 |
Cultural formation | Clara Balfour | Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England
, she later converted and joined the Baptists
with the rest of her family in 1840. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Cultural formation | Emily Hickey | Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland
, she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic
. Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 199. Gale Research, 1999. 199: 167 Peterson, William S. Interrogating the Oracle: A History of the London Browning Society. Ohio University Press, 1969. 17, 18 |
Timeline
By November 1700: The recently founded SPCK opened a charity...
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By November 1700
The recently founded SPCK
opened a charity school for forty girls at St Andrew's in Holborn, where a boys' school had opened early in the year. Subscribers included Sarah, Lady Cowper
for three pounds...
1701: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel...
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1701
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
(a major Anglican
missionary organisation) was founded as an offshoot of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Kugler, Anne. Errant Plagiary: The Life and Writing of Lady Sarah Cowper, 1644-1720. Stanford University Press, 2002.
100-1
: Charles Wesley and two or three other undergraduates...
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Spring 1729
Charles Wesley
and two or three other undergraduates founded a society at Oxford which others called methodistical.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1761: The Countess of Huntingdon established her...
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1761
The Countess of Huntingdon
established her first registered chapel, at Brighton.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.
under Whitefieldites
Staves, Susan. “Church of England Clergy and Women Writers”. Reconsidering the Bluestockings, edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty Schellenberg, Huntington Library, 2003, pp. 81-103.
99-100
1769: Hannah Ballimg: move in unlikely event of...
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1769
Hannah Ball
opened an early Methodist
Sunday school at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Feminist Companion Archive.
6 February 1772: The House of Commons rejected a petition...
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6 February 1772
The House of Commons
rejected a petition to drop the Creeds and Thirty-Nine Articles as requisites to Anglican
belief.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
42 (1772): 156
Spring 1772-Spring 1773: The passage through parliament of the Toleration...
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Spring 1772-Spring 1773
The passage through parliament of the Toleration Bill gave opportunities to Edmund Burke
to argue for religious toleration—in the belief that this would actually strengthen the Church of England
.
De Bruyn, Frans. “Anti-Semitism, Millenarianism, and Radical Dissent in Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in FranceEighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 4, 1 June 2001– 2024, pp. 577-00. 594 and nn51-53
17 April 1774: The inaugural service was held at the first...
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17 April 1774
The inaugural service was held at the first Unitarian
chapel, in Essex Street, London.
Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
83
Webb, Robert Kiefer. “Miracles in English Unitarian Thought”. Enlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture, edited by Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle, Stanford University Press, 2000, pp. 113-30.
113
1784: John Wesley broke finally with the Church...
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1784
John Wesley
broke finally with the Church of England
, though still vacillating as to whether to espouse full Evangelicism
; in 1787 his Methodist
chapels were registered as Dissenting chapels.
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
86, 89 and n37
2 March 1790: Charles James Fox proposed in the House of...
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2 March 1790
Charles James Fox
proposed in the House of Commons
the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (instruments of discrimination against Dissenters
). Next day his motion was voted down (its third rejection in four...
After 2 March 1791: Following the death of John Wesley, the Methodists...
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After 2 March 1791
Following the death of John Wesley
, the Methodists
extended the circuit system throughout Britain as an alternative to the parish system used by the Established Church
Jones, Mary Gwladys. Hannah More. Cambridge University Press, 1952.
86
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1793: William Freind argued in Peace and Union...
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1793
William Freind
argued in Peace and Union Recommended to the Associated Bodies of Republicans and Anti-Republicans against the union of Church
and state.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
1797: Andrew Bell, a Scottish Anglican clergyman,...
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1797
Andrew Bell
, a Scottish Anglican
clergyman, published An Experiment in Education, made at the Male Asylum of Madras. Suggesting a system by which a school or family may teach itself under the superintendence...
By April 1799: The Church Missionary Society was founded...
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By April 1799
The Church Missionary Society
was founded by the Evangelical wing of the Church of England
, as the Society for Missions in Africa and the East.
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
91
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christian Missions. 2nd ed., Penguin, 1990.
214
Bradley, Ian. The Call to Seriousness: The Evangelical Impact on the Victorians. Jonathan Cape, 1976.
75, 91
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
68 (1799): 300
1801: The Quaker Joseph Lancaster opened his non-sectarian...
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1801
The QuakerJoseph Lancaster
opened his non-sectarian Free School in Borough Road in south-east London; he soon had a thousand pupils.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson, 1980.
78-81
McCarthy, William. Anna Letitia Barbauld, Voice of the Enlightenment. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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