Anglican Church

CR said I may fairly claim to be English, Scotch, and Irish. She was, however, of the Irish or Anglo-Irish gentry by predominant heritage, a Londoner by adoption, an Anglican in religion, and presumumably...

Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican religion, she for...

Baptised an Anglican , Jane was about sixteen at the time of her vocation to the inward and divine life.

She writes occasionally like an Anglican , more often like a Deist or sceptic, and frequently as an anti-Catholic. In politics she was a pro-Robert Walpole Whig.

JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests, but he later saw this...

SLC was a fervent Anglican : her husband felt her piety would wear out a parson, let alone a man of some religious scepticism like himself. When in 1701 she met the free-thinking philosopher...

MJY 's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England and...

One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism : a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable.

Kate Parry Frye, suffrage organizer, playwright, and prolific diarist, was English (with some Scottish antecedents), middle-class, and presumably white. She was a conventional Anglican church-goer, but was excited after the war by the preaching of...

Her family were Unitarian s but her father converted to the Church of England . She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of...

She was born into the Anglo-Irish upper middle class, with dignitaries in the Church of Ireland on both sides of her family, whose origin was French Huguenot.

Hester Ley was born into a large and upwardly-mobile English gentry family whose religion was Anglican and whose menfolk were expected to serve (and do well for themselves) in public life: elected to parliament, loyal...

FS was born a middle-class Anglican Irishwoman (though her father was English, and after her death her grand-daughter-biographer chose to think of her as English).

Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church , EG was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of...

EJ was a lifelong Londoner, a High Tory, and an Anglican . As a printer for fifty years, she had some standing in the urban middle class.