Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Evelyn Sharp
Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,
Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.
33, 37-8
ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...
Cultural formation Eleanor Anne Porden
EAB was baptised into the Church of England . Her religious belief was broad-minded, liberal, tolerant. Faced with the Evangelical tendencies of the family of her future husband, who disapproved of many of her Sunday...
Cultural formation Anne Halkett
Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class.
Halkett, Anne et al. “The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett”. The Memoirs of Anne, Lady Halkett, and Ann, Lady Fanshawe, edited by John Loftis and John Loftis, Clarendon Press, 1979, pp. 9-87.
9-10
AH was a...
Cultural formation John Henry Newman
The ex-Anglican leader and Tractarian JHN completed his conversion by being received into the Roman Catholic Church.
Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Clarendon Press, 1988.
316
Cultural formation Mary Frances Billington
English by birth and presumably white, she was raised in the Church of England , a religious upbringing that reflected her father's and grandfather's occupations as Church of England clergymen.
Tuson, Penelope. The Queen’s Daughters: An Anthology of Victorian Feminist Writings on India, 1857-1900. Ithaca Press, 1995, http://University of Waterloo - Porter.
295
From her final book-length...
Cultural formation Margaret Cavendish
She has sometimes been said to be a Catholic (perhaps because her husband's family had long had leanings that way); but she was an Anglican who explained in her Philosophical Letters that she followed the...
Cultural formation James Anthony Froude
He gradually lost faith in High Church tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle . JAF was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and...
Cultural formation Catherine Talbot
She came of ecclesiastical families on both sides. Her male relations had risen high in the Church, and were gentry with links to the aristocracy. But despite their connections, her father's death ensured that she...
Cultural formation Lady Rachel Russell
LRR was born to an English father and French mother, both of the nobility. She was a devout Anglican .
Cultural formation Mary Penington
In youth she acquired the habit of walking several miles each week to hear a Puritan preacher. When she was married, she and her husband considered leaving the Anglican church for the Independents, but decided...
Cultural formation Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke
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...
Cultural formation Bessie Head
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,
Eilersen, Gillian Stead. Bessie Head. 2nd edition, Wits University Press, 2007.
20, 25
she wrote later that for years...
Cultural formation Mary Jones
MJ was a middle-class Anglican Englishwoman.
Cultural formation Judith Man
She was by birth an Englishwoman of the professional class dependent on the nobility, politically monarchist and presumably Anglican .
Cultural formation Pat Arrowsmith
The vicarage was by the sea, and the sheltered atmosphere was almost Victorian in its cocooned world.
Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books, 1995.
back cover
Her Anglican family was comfortably upper-middle class, and thought of itself as upper-class. As a child...

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