Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Queen Victoria
Princess Alexandrina Victoria was confirmed an Anglican at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
47
Cultural formation Iris Murdoch
One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism : a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable.
Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol.
91
, 2001–2002, pp. 52-3.
53
Cultural formation Elizabeth Strickland
Elizabeth, while remaining a practising Anglican , became remarkable for her capacity to think herself into the mindset of British Roman Catholics at a time when the generally dominant party in England saw them as...
Cultural formation Susanna Parr
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...
Cultural formation Maria Abdy
As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters .
Cultural formation Gerard Manley Hopkins
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...
Cultural formation Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny
FNBA belonged to the English upper class, and to a network of relations who held or strove for power in the state. Judging by the known political allegiance of her eldest brother, she would have...
Cultural formation Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...
Cultural formation Phyllis Bottome
PB was confirmed into the Anglican Church while attending St John the Baptist School in New York City.
Bottome, Phyllis. Search for a Soul. Reynal and Hitchcock, 1948.
210-14, 216
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...
Cultural formation Georgiana Chatterton
Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court.
Dering, Edward Heneage, and Georgiana Chatterton. Memoirs of Georgiana, Lady Chatterton. Hurst and Blackett, 1878.
7-19
As...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Meeke
While Mrs Meeke the English writer was wrongly identified by scholars as a comfortably and securely upper-middle-class wife of an Anglican clergyman, her frenetic production of novels was at least surprising. Now, however, that she...
Cultural formation Lucie Duff Gordon
Lucie Austin (later LDG ) was baptised and confirmed as an Anglican on the last Sunday of the year; she was sixteen.
Ross, Janet, and Lucie Duff Gordon. “Memoir”. Letters from Egypt, Virago, 1983, pp. 1-17.
4
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
95
Cultural formation Anna Williams
AW was a Welshwoman born into a professional family deep in the Pembrokeshire countryside. Belief in second sight flourished there, and it seems that AW herself as an adult (though a devout Anglican ) believed...
Cultural formation Anne Lady Southwell
ALS belonged to the English gentry class, with country roots but with contacts and interest at Court. She believed in the new religion, the Protestant Church of England .

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