Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Jane Williams
Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist ancestors...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Delaval
ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...
Cultural formation Jessie Fothergill
JF 's father, a former Quaker , was cast out by the Society of Friends when he married an Anglican wife.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Scholar Helen Debenham notes, citing correspondence with Ian Fell , who is writing a...
Cultural formation Joanna Southcott
She created her own, millenarian religious sect after the Methodists and the Church of England (both of whose services she attended) had rebuffed her unconventional advances. She is, however, often associated with the Methodists.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press, 1982.
47, 58, 35
Cultural formation Katherine Philips
KP came on both sides from middle-class Puritan English families.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68.
1-2
Though she married another Puritan, she grew increasingly Anglican and royalist.
Philips, Katherine. “Introduction and Textual Notes”. The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, The Matchless Orinda, Volume I: The Poems, edited by Patrick Thomas, Stump Cross Books, 1990, pp. 1-68.
5
Though born a Londoner, she entered whole-heartedly into the Welsh identity...
Cultural formation E. Nesbit
EN was born in the English middle class (though she had some Irish and Swedish blood) and brought up as an Anglican . She became a socialist and a feminist, although with some reservations and...
Cultural formation Katharine S. Macquoid
She was born into the urban middle class, of Welsh descent on at least her father's side. She seems to have been an Anglican , and was presumably white.
Cultural formation Enid Blyton
She was brought up a Baptist (baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Charles
She was born into a supportive, professional English family.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Charles, Elizabeth. Our Seven Homes. Editor Davidson, Mary, John Murray, 1896.
6, passim
Travel in France and exposure to the Oxford Movement made EC consider converting to the Roman Catholic Church later in life. However, she remained...
Cultural formation Susanna Wesley
SW was born into the middle class and into the very heart of the English Dissenting movement. Her father accepted her choice (made at twelve years old on the basis of her own careful reasoning)...
Cultural formation Edith J. Simcox
She was christened on 11 September 1844 at Christchurch Greyfriars in London. Her family belonged to the English middle class and was presumably white. After an Anglican upbringing, she moved away from conventional religious...
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 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

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