Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Cultural formation Susanna Parr
SP apparently grew up in the Church of England . Then, seeking a reformation in religion, admiring the non-established churches of New England, and looking, in the heady Civil War years, towards the idea...
Cultural formation Anne Finch
She was born in the English upper class and baptised into the Anglican church. A monarchist by family tradition, she developed a Jacobite identity after James II was ousted from his throne.
Cultural formation Laurence Hope
Adela Cory's English parents were living in India at the time of her birth, as did many Britons throughout the period of British rule over the sub-continent. Her mother's family heritage was Irish. Adela was...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Kelty
MAK thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller 's Memoirs.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering, 1852.
134
She felt her unhappiness as a child and young woman was good for...
Cultural formation L. T. Meade
She was born into the Anglo-Irish middle class and brought up as a member of the Church of Ireland .
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
223
A friend said that her faith was essentially a religion of brightness and of love.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
229
Cultural formation Roma White
A romantic sense of her own identity as a white, Christian (apparently Anglican ) Englishwoman seems to inform those of RW 's fictions that fulminate against mixed marriages or liaisons, which she presented as socially...
Cultural formation Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT , who later published as A. L. O. E., formally converted to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England .
Khorana, Meena, and Judith Gero John, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 163. Gale Research, 1996.
163: 318
Bratton, Jacqueline S. The Impact of Victorian Children’s Fiction. Croom Helm, 1981.
71, 75
Cultural formation Ethel Smyth
Born into a professional English family, ES was brought up in the Church of England but abandoned organized religion after she had composed a setting of the Mass in 1891.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Hester Biddle
Brought up an Anglican , she was initially disturbed at the King 's execution. In the bloody City of London she lived like the prodigal son after his riotous period had ended, feeding ....
Cultural formation Anne Ridler
AR was born into the English professional class. As a baby and small child she always had a nurse-maid.
Ridler, Anne. Memoirs. The Perpetua Press, 2004, p. 240 pp.
9
She was confirmed in the Church of England , while at boarding-school, at fifteen and...
Cultural formation Jane Cave
JC , daughter of Welsh and English parents,
Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
36
, No. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 415-31.
417
came from the lower middle class (she mentions her humble station). She grew up with her father's fierce critiques of Anglican practice, yet attended Anglican...
Cultural formation Anne Docwra
Born into an English gentry family, AD was an Anglican during the Interregnum, when Anglicans were persecuted and reduced to holding their services in field conventicles.
Docwra, Anne. The Second Part of an Apostate-Conscience Exposed. 1700.
21
Her husband joined the Society of Friends in...
Cultural formation Agnes Giberne
AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...
Cultural formation Mary Frere
MF belonged to the English professional upper classes, and was a devout Anglican .

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