Anglican Church

JCM was confirmed in the Church of England by Thomas Secker , probably at St James's, Piccadilly, having apparently not received this sacrament as a child.

From a family which was financially precarious though middle-class by birth, MW seems to have questioned the religious fervour typical of its other members (at first Anglican , in due course Methodist ), while also...

The Veitch family were presumably white, and belonged to the Scottish gentry, with male members holding professional positions. They were Anglicans with (judging by the positions held by Sophie's father) distinctly Low-Church leanings.

She was born into the English middle class, and became a sincere and earnest Anglican . She grew up in an industrial, working-class area, in which her family was clearly marked out as superior to...

JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, but he later saw this...

FAR came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican in religion. Mary Russell Mitford represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were...

SLC was a fervent Anglican : her husband felt her piety would wear out a parson, let alone a man of some religious scepticism like himself. When in 1701 she met the free-thinking philosopher...

MJY 's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England and...

After this decisive step the former bickering and negotiation continued. Two women visited her, very likely at the instigation of their husbands, to beg her to stay. After a couple of months, however, this church...

He was born into an English family of comfortable middle-class means, who were devout practising High Church Anglican s. From at least his student days it seems that Gerard was attracted chiefly if not exclusively...

She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .

MM was born into the American professional class. She decided to become a Christian (an Episcopalian ) when she was nearly nine, as a gesture of rebellion against the freethinking of her parents. She...

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

JW , a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as...

CMT came from a large, highly literate, dynamic, Anglican family that enjoyed the London social scene. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant who had spent much of his adult life in India. Her pseudonym...