Anglican Church

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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 Emily Davies
ED was unusual in her combination of conservatism and feminism. She was a strong supporter of the Conservative Party and the Establishment, and sought members of the Church and nobility for her committees.
Caine, Barbara. Victorian Feminists. Oxford University Press, 1992.
57-8, 86
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 Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
The child of wealthy English Anglican family of Huguenot extraction, Mary Bosanquet received at about the age of four what she felt to be a proof that God answers prayer. At five she developed an...
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 Sarah Green
SG seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican , yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers , millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite
Cultural formation Naomi Jacob
NJ was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost...
Cultural formation Amy Levy
AL was an upper-middle-class Jew from a family which had been English for over a century, though they travelled the world for career purposes more freely than most English people.
Many reference books still repeat...
Cultural formation Kate Parry Frye
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...
Cultural formation E. Owens Blackburne
She was Irish by birth and family, presumably white, and probably Protestant, which is to say a member of the Church of Ireland .
O’Donoghue, David James. The Poets of Ireland. Gale Research, 1968.
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Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
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...
Cultural formation Jan Morris
She asserted that she had never been a believing Christian, though she was steeped in the music and architecture of Anglicanism and the culture of Christianity in general.
Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016.
5
She voiced her adult beliefs as:...
Cultural formation Melesina Trench
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.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Harriet Downing
She seems to have belonged to the upper range of the English middle classes; she had at least an impressive array of contacts, shown in her subscription lists. Baptised into the Church of England ...
Cultural formation Frances Sheridan
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).
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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