Anglican Church

Little is known about her background. Her family, however, was old-established, presumably white, certainly English, Anglican , and upper-middle-class.

Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican Church. AMH encountered many practising Catholic s while living with her maternal step-grandfather , who often entertained...

EB was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was her...

Isa grew up poor and Scottish. Her family's denominational affiliation is unknown, but as an adult she belonged to the Church of England .

CY was confirmed in the Church of England after several months of instruction from TractarianJohn Keble .

The daughter of a radical Anglican , AW was herself a materialist and thus also an atheist.

EPS belonged to the English gentry class, though her father was of Welsh descent. Though she never thought of herself as assuming Canadian nationality, her writings have given her the status of an honorary Canadian...

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...

Born into an EnglishEvangelicalAnglican and intellectual family, WP believed that work and Christianity offered guidance through difficult times. She was a socialist by conviction, who admired the toughness of the post-war generation and was...

IM was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland , had come down in the...

She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism compared with the Anglican church.

Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her...

EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .

In religion RNC was an earnest HighAnglican . Her friend Helen Marion Burnside said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing.

She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge says her father belonged to the higher professional class: an uncle, cousin, and brother all distinguished themselves in legal fields. It is not...