Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Elizabeth Hands
EH was an Englishwoman, baptised into the EstablishedChurch , in her own words born in obscurity, and never emerging beyond the lower stations in life.
Hands, Elizabeth. The Death of Amnon. Printed for the Author, 1789.
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Cultural formation Maria Jane Jewsbury
MJJ 's illness was accompanied by depression and a spiritual crisis. She began to question the compatibility of her religious faith and her writing career, and felt immense guilt over her desire to be publicly...
Cultural formation Rose Macaulay
Over the course of her life, RM 's religious practices ranged between Anglican and Anglo-agnostic. She was initially given instruction in the Anglican faith by her mother. As an early adolescent (like George Eliot 's...
Cultural formation Florence Nightingale
FN experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic
Cultural formation Alison Uttley
She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose...
Cultural formation Flora Annie Steel
The Webster children were baptised Presbyterian s, as befitted their Scottish heritage, but attended the local Anglican parish church. Flora was the only one of the family to be confirmed as an Anglican.
Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann, 1981.
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Cultural formation Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Margaret Holford
Her parents belonged securely to the minor English gentry; her husband followed a profession as a clergyman of the Church of England , to which she presumably belonged.
Cultural formation Annie Keary
Her mother and father were respectively northern English and Irish ascendency. Both came from the gentry class and seem to have been white. Brought up in the Church of England , AK was a deeply...
Cultural formation Damaris Masham
She was an Anglican : questioning on issues of religion, but a firm believer. Historian Karen O'Brien places her as a late Latudinarian, belonging to a group within the Church of England which was...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Beverley
Several of her works imitate the form of sermons and express Christian piety (anti-Methodist and probably Anglican ), but this may well be simply part of her stock-in-trade.
Cultural formation Willa Cather
WC was proud to be an American, whose family, Irish in origin, had been in Virginia since colonial times.
Lee, Hermione. Willa Cather: A Life Saved Up. Virago, 1989.
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She was vividly aware of the varying ethnicities that made up the melting-pot of the...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Freke
EF was a fervent if unorthodox Anglican and belonged to the English, monarchist gentry Through her husband and again through her daughter-in-law she had ties to Ireland.
Cultural formation Joanna Trollope
JT grew up as a member of the English professional class and of the Church of England .
Cultural formation Felicia Skene
The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland ; FS 's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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