Anglican Church

SS belonged to the English middle class. Her religious background was Anglican , but as her biographer Frances Spalding notes, she was an agnostic who could not entirely abandon belief in a God of Love...

CR said I may fairly claim to be English, Scotch, and Irish. She was, however, of the Irish or Anglo-Irish gentry by predominant heritage, a Londoner by adoption, an Anglican in religion, and presumumably...

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...

Several of her works imitate the form of sermons and express Christian piety (anti-Methodist and probably Anglican ), but this may well be simply part of her stock-in-trade.

WC was proud to be an American, whose family, Irish in origin, had been in Virginia since colonial times. She was vividly aware of the varying ethnicities that made up the melting-pot of the...

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...

GF , hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland , was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.

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...

EF was a fervent if unorthodox Anglican and belonged to the English, monarchist gentry Through her husband and again through her daughter-in-law she had ties to Ireland.

Beatrice Potter (later BW ) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions...

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 .

Her biographer Victoria Glendinning believes that her Anglicanism was more than merely social, and cites her indignation over the modernising of services in the Book of Common Prayer, and her speaking up in support...

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

MP was born into the English rural professional class on the fringes of the gentry, and was a member of the Church of England .