Anglican Church

The Webster children were baptised Presbyterian s, as befitted their Scottish heritage, but attended the local Anglican parish church. Flora was the only one of the family to be confirmed as an Anglican.

HB 's writings demonstrate that she was not only Irish but also an Irish nationalist, a Whig, a Protestant (probably Church of Ireland ) and a sympathiser with freemasonry.

ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...

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...

Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic , she became a committed...

Alice Thompson (later AM ) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English...

She was Irish by birth and family, presumably white, and probably Protestant, which is to say a member of the Church of Ireland .

JR was at one time attracted to Catholicism , mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns circulated amongst the...

She seems to have belonged to the upper range of the English middle classes; she had at least an impressive array of contacts, shown in her subscription lists. Baptised into the Church of England ...

She belonged to the Church of England , which was a great influence on her life.

From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.

Although she was baptised in the Church ofEngland , SW was remarkable for her principled empathy and personal friendships with Dissenters . The Feminist Companion calls her an evangelical; Jack Simmons , in his...

Her upbringing in a professional, Tory, English family was surprisingly unconventional: she was encouraged to roam freely with her brother, to read widely . . . and forbidden to wear restrictive clothing. Although her father...

MA was a middle-class Englishwoman with strong High Anglican and Tory opinions. At the same time, her sustained and intense application to the issue of women's status puts her squarely in the category of early...

Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...