Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Anna Eliza Bray
AEB 's father's family was Anglican .
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 Sara Coleridge
Sara received Anglican baptism sooner after her birth than her elder siblings had, which shows that her father 's Unitarian convictions were slackening. Though little is known about her own early religious beliefs, she was...
Cultural formation Buchi Emecheta
BE 's mother eventually became a Christian. BE is herself an Anglican .
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994.
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Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research, 1991.
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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 Nina Hamnett
Born into the English professional class, NH lost no time in becoming cosmopolitan and déclassée. She was brought up to believe that women were worth less than men, though she later discovered that female gender...
Cultural formation Maria Jane Jewsbury
The Jewsbury family was middle-class, English, and white. MJJ was a practising member of the Church of England .
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
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, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
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Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
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Cultural formation Rose Macaulay
On her return from a holiday in Italy, RM received a letter from her former confessor, Father Hamilton Johnson , which in due course brought her back to the Anglican Church.
Emery, Jane. Rose Macaulay: A Writer’s Life. John Murray, 1991.
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Babington Smith, Constance. Rose Macaulay. Collins, 1972.
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Cultural formation Margaret Bryan
On the publication of her first book, the Critical Review implied that some of her opinions sounded like those of a Catholic . Defending herself, MB claimed to be irreproachably orthodox, that is Anglican ...
Cultural formation Anna Letitia Waring
ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.
Talbot, Mary S. In Remembrance of Anna Letitia Waring. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1911.
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Thesing, William B., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 240. Gale Research, 2001.
240: 306
Cultural formation Mary Countess Cowper
MCC was born into the English gentry class and became a peeress when her husband's career achievements were rewarded with a barony. (His earldom came later.) She belonged to the Church of England .
Cultural formation Alice Thornton
She was a devout Anglican . In 1631, as a small child, she underwent a kind of conversion experience: it pleased God to come into my soule by some beames of his mercy.
Thornton, Alice. The Autobiography of Mrs. Alice Thornton. Editor Jackson, Charles, 1809 - 1882, Published for the Society by Andrews, 1875.
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Cultural formation Anna Seward
AS belonged to the Anglican genteel or middle ranks. She had small tolerance for Dissenters. Critic Harriet Guest summarizes her political position as polite and provincial whiggery.
Guest, Harriet. Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750-1810. University of Chicago Press, 2000.
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Cultural formation Mary Julia Young
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...
Cultural formation E. J. Scovell
Born into the English middle classes, EJS was brought up an Anglican but after an interim period as a pantheist settled down as an an agnostic.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
In a poem entitled Agnostic she pointed out that...

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