Anglican Church

JA 's family had links with the English nobility, but shortage of cash made their gentry status less than wholly secure. JA was a strong Anglican believer.

AB came from an Irish and English background, Anglican on both sides. Her father's tireless activity as rector in Haworth and surrounding areas made her a member of a prominent and respectable, if financially strapped...

Her parents were members of the English professional class, and were devout Anglicans .

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

Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH was baptised into the Church ofEngland . Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family...

Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism ...

Little is known of ET 's background. She was English, presumably white, and her writing shows that she was a member of the middling ranks. From the opinions clearly voiced in her poetry, she must...

LAM had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English...

JS was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being...

Brought up in the Church of England , she left the church in the Restoration period, with her stepfather and the rest of her family, to become a Dissenter . She remembered that she was...

CD was a teenager when her Jewish parents divorced; presumably she was brought up in Judaism until this event; probably she completed her upbringing as an Anglican gentlewoman. She must have been to a greater...

AG was baptised in the Church of England at Portsmouth. Her parents were unlikely to have omitted this sacrament when she was little if they were Anglicans; it seems therefore that she probably converted...

She grew up in the Puritan part of the Anglican faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist s, and later still of the Presbyterian s or Independents . She then...

RL came from a family well-established among England's upper-middle-class cultural elite, and regarded herself as English. She descended on her mother's side from one of New Hampshire's early lieutenant-governors, and on her father's from European...

In 1816, HBS went to stay for a time with her grandmother in a setting widely different from her birth home. Her father's home is described as being Congregational and democratic in contrast to the...