Anglican Church

QV was a devout Anglican , as befitted the head of the Church of England . (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian , that is Church of Scotland , parish church.)

Her securely middle-class family had aspirations to rise higher in the social scale, but their financial status steadily declined. They were High Anglicans .

EB was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was her...

Isa grew up poor and Scottish. Her family's denominational affiliation is unknown, but as an adult she belonged to the Church of England .

CY was confirmed in the Church of England after several months of instruction from TractarianJohn Keble .

MP was baptised a Christian by an Anglican clergyman, James Curtin ; though empowered to baptise her in the name of the Trinity, he would not let her attend his Sunday school without her owner's permission.

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

PL is, she says, an agnostic. She came out as such at around fifteen to her grandmother (a keen Anglican whose religion involved a commitment to serving the local community). She explained that she assented...

AW was a Welshwoman born into a professional family deep in the Pembrokeshire countryside. Belief in second sight flourished there, and it seems that AW herself as an adult (though a devout Anglican ) believed...

She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans .

ALS belonged to the English gentry class, with country roots but with contacts and interest at Court. She believed in the new religion, the Protestant Church of England .

Born into the English, presumably white, professional class, she grew up to be highly critical of that class, yet at the same time to continue something of a snob and a racist. These views were...

EMD was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant and her father a Catholic who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD adopted...

Daughter, wife, and mother of clergymen, AF was English, Anglican , and presumably white.

EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction. Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...