Anglican Church

This Mary Sidney was born of the union of two families which were powers in the land. She made the most of her rank. She was a devout Anglican Protestant , though her father's family...

Brought up by a Roman Catholic foster-mother, sent to an Anglican mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next, she wrote later that for years...

MJ was a middle-class Anglican Englishwoman.

She was by birth an Englishwoman of the professional class dependent on the nobility, politically monarchist and presumably Anglican .

She was deeply influenced by her father, an Irish Nationalist politician from the gentry class, who taught her to be proud of her Irish descent. She was a Protestant for the first four decades of...

The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society. Baldwin's father, a Wesleyan minister, was more liberal in his religious influence than her mother. He hoped Louisa would grow up to be...

With Irish forebears, BB felt she was mainly Irish despite her English nationality and American inheritance. Though the beliefs of her mother's sect affected her upbringing, she was baptised an Anglican . As an...

She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge 's The Daisy Chain, she had...

Born in the English gentry and brought up an Anglican , she became a Quaker in middle age. After this she quickly became a leader in the movement. Her class status, unusual among Quaker preachers...

She belonged to the English professional class (though her father had been an American colonist before the Revolution) and the Anglican Church . She was presumably white.

MS was born to an Englishman and a New Zealander, into the middle class and the Church of England . Her family moved when she was a baby from Sunderland, where her father was...

She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...

RP is an Englishwoman and a member of the Church ofEngland . Her surname bears witness to her father's ethnic origins as one of the Wends or Sorbs, a Slavic people hailing from the region...

SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...

MK 's family was English and presumably white, but it embodied several internal contradictions. Through her father she belonged to the professional classes, but on her mother's side she sprang from the working class. Her...