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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Cultural formation | Richmal Crompton | RC
was born into the English middle class. She remained committed to the Conservative Party and the Church of England
throughout her life, though her religious belief must surely have been complicated by her interest... |
| Cultural formation | Charlotte Yonge | The third great influence on CY
's life was John Keble
, the Tractarian churchman. He was already famous when he became a regular visitor in the home of the twelve-year-old Charlotte, though they had... |
| Cultural formation | Githa Sowerby | GS
's father's family had been in the glass manufacturing business for several generations. The business was at its peak in her early years and her family was rich and respected. But its empire-building days... |
| Cultural formation | Margaret Roberts | She grew up as a member of the Church of England
. |
| Cultural formation | Phebe Gibbes | She seems to have belonged to the middle or lower gentry class and to the Church of England
, |
| Cultural formation | Catherine Hubback | |
| Cultural formation | Anna Margaretta Larpent | AML
was born in the English gentry or professional class, with close connections to Hungarian nobility. In religion she was a pious, serious-minded Anglican
. Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 1998. 379 |
| Cultural formation | Margaret Minifie | The Minifies had bought Fairwater House (now rebuilt and forming part of Taunton School
) in the early eighteenth century. They belonged to the Church of England
and to the gentry or professional class. Margaret... |
| Cultural formation | Annie Besant | 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... |
| Cultural formation | Barbara Cartland | |
| Cultural formation | Mary Angela Dickens | 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. 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. |
| Cultural formation | Antonia Fraser | 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... |
| Cultural formation | Susanna Wesley | 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)... |
| Cultural formation | Edith J. Simcox | 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... |
| Cultural formation | Mary Ann Radcliffe | MAR
's life was shaped by the Roman Catholic
identity of her mother and husband, though her father belonged to the established church
and she was herself baptised as an Anglican. |
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, 1908–2026, 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, 1908–2026, 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 2001–2026, 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, 1908–2026, 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,...
Writing climate item
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...
National or international item
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.
376
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