Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Elizabeth Justice
EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches )...
Cultural formation Catherine Marsh
She belonged to the English upper or upper-middle class, and by religion to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England . She never married or had her own children, though she adopted and cared...
Cultural formation P. D. James
Born into the English middle class, PDJ was a believing Anglican whose religious commitment was unaffected by her ability to cast a disenchanted eye on the workings of the Church of England as an institution.
Ashby, Melanie. “P. D. James Talks to Melanie Ashby”. Mslexia, Vol.
14
, 1 June–30 Nov. 2002, pp. 39-40.
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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 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 Dorothy Osborne
She was an Anglican from the English gentry class.
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland in about 1660.
Cultural formation Ellis Cornelia Knight
Throughout her life ECK associated with the highest English society, at first through connections of her father and later as a result of her years of royal service to Princess Charlotte . Her family lived...
Cultural formation Charlotte Mew
Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...
Cultural formation Evelyn Underhill
Though she was an Anglican by birth and confirmation, her upbringing was not a religious one. Her father seems to have had a philosophical interest in religion, but he was far from devout. In his...
Cultural formation Ada Cambridge
AC worshipped in the AnglicanChurch both as a child and adult, and her early novellas, hymns, and poems emphasize her strong religious faith.
Bradstock, Margaret, and Louise Wakeling. Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. Penguin, 1991.
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In middle life, probably owing to the deaths of her first...
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 Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Despite her clear statement of her father's Jewish ethnicity (and his Portuguese national heritage: she calls herself the daughter of a Portugueze),
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Wanderings of the Imagination. B. Crosby, 1796, 2 vols.
1: 9
she was baptised into the Church of England on 4...
Cultural formation Elizabeth B. Lester
From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.
Garside, Peter. “Mrs. Ross and Elizabeth B. Lester: New Attributions”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
2
, June 1998.

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