Anglican Church

Her family is called respectable, which may have implied membership of the middling ranks, and she was baptised into the Anglican church.

Born into the English middle classes, EJS was brought up an Anglican but after an interim period as a pantheist settled down as an an agnostic. In a poem entitled Agnostic she pointed out that...

AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican

ME wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her...

She was confirmed in the Church of England , noticing the formalistic, bureaucratic way this was carried out.

She was born into an English, presumably white, strongly Anglican family of the professional class. Male members of her family on both sides had risen in their professions through sheer ability, and there was a...

Princess Alexandrina Victoria was confirmed an Anglican at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London.

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...

Perhaps influenced by her friend Eleanor Hamilton King , or by John Henry Newman , EH converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism , which she dubbed her great and beautiful inheritance.

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

When AW felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England 's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up.

Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism . (As the Puritan John Field put it...

At Christmas either this year or the previous one JS joined the Methodists , but they rebuffed her when she began talking about the Spirit. The Church of England also responded with hostility to her...

Born into the English country gentry (with yeoman connections further down the rural social scale), MBE became a radical in social politics and a nonconformist and anti-clerical in religion. Presumably white herself, she was finally...

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 .