Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Florence Nightingale
FN experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic
Cultural formation Violet Fane
VF belonged to a well-established family with high social connections.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Her paternal heritage reportedly stretched back to the best English, Scottish, and French blood.
Fane, Violet. “Introduction”. Poems, John C. Nimmo, 1892, p. v - viii.
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Her grandparents and parents were brought up in the Anglican
Cultural formation Kate Parry Frye
Kate Parry Frye, suffrage organizer, playwright, and prolific diarist, was English (with some Scottish antecedents), middle-class, and presumably white. She was a conventional Anglican church-goer, but was excited after the war by the preaching of...
Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
Her family were Unitarian s but her father converted to the Church of England . She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of...
Cultural formation Melesina Trench
She was born into the Anglo-Irish upper middle class, with dignitaries in the Church of Ireland on both sides of her family, whose origin was French Huguenot.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Frances Sheridan
FS was born a middle-class Anglican Irishwoman (though her father was English, and after her death her grand-daughter-biographer chose to think of her as English).
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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Cultural formation Pandita Ramabai
While living with the Anglican sisterhood at Wantage inBerkshire, PR was baptised into the Church ofEngland by William Butler , together with her daughter, Manorama. She took the name Mary Rama.
Blumhofer, Edith L. “From India’s Coral Strand: Pandita Ramabai and U. S. Support for Foreign Missions”. The Foreign Mission Enterprise at Home, edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker, University of Alamaba Press, 2003, pp. 152-70.
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Adhav, Shamsundar Manohar. Pandita Ramabai. Christian Literature Society, 1979.
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Maiorani, Arianna. “Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922)”. Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present, edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp, Continuum, 2005, pp. 113-25.
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Cultural formation Augusta Gregory
AG 's parents were Irish Protestant land-owners whose estate, encompassing thousands of acres, was originally acquired in the seventeenth century. Her forebears were a mix of Irish and English, Catholic and Protestant. Her maternal grandmother...
Cultural formation Alethea Lewis
AL was a middle-class Englishwoman (with relatives in trade and the professions, and forebears in the nobility) who admired the political liberties of the new American colonies. She was an Anglican , but unusually relaxed...
Cultural formation Mary Anne Barker
Brought up in the Church of England , she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died,
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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Cultural formation Josephine Butler
JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...
Cultural formation Mary Whateley Darwall
MWD came from the rural middle class, from middle England and the established church . Her father not only owned his land but even considered himself a gentleman (though neither his income nor, probably, his...
Cultural formation Edith Templeton
Both Edith's parents were from wealthy, land-owning families. She was educated and influenced by European aesthetics, and prides herself on her cosmopolitanism. Her several languages include English, German, and French; her first was Czech. She...
Cultural formation Gladys Henrietta Schütze
While working for the Daily HeraldGHS developed the habit of dropping into StMartin-in-the-Fields for the peace and quiet. Thus she met the Rev. Dick Sheppard , who was one influence towards her conversion to...
Cultural formation Ruth Pitter
RP was baptised an Anglican as a baby by parents who had trained at Church of England colleges but were not churchgoers.
Russell, Arthur et al. “Faithful to Delight: A Portrait Sketch”. Ruth Pitter: Homage to a Poet, edited by Arthur Russell, Rapp and Whiting, 1969, pp. 19-40.
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Brought up between her father's scepticism and her mother's eclecticism in matters...

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