Anglican Church

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...

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.

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 .

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.

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...

AC was an upper-middle-class Englishwoman whose father was American. She was a practising Anglican , although after her divorce she no longer took Communion.

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)...

She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican church. Though she spent most of her adult...

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...

Hester Ley was born into a large and upwardly-mobile English gentry family whose religion was Anglican and whose menfolk were expected to serve (and do well for themselves) in public life: elected to parliament, loyal...

Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church , EG was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of...

EJ was a lifelong Londoner, a High Tory, and an Anglican . As a printer for fifty years, she had some standing in the urban middle class.

Growing up Anglican , she was intensely or excessively religious as an adolescent. Her beliefs began to alter when her reading led her to perceive a parallel between the stories of the Bible and those...

Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican church.