Anglican Church

He was born into an English family of comfortable middle-class means, who were devout practising High Church Anglican s. From at least his student days it seems that Gerard was attracted chiefly if not exclusively...

She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .

MM was born into the American professional class. She decided to become a Christian (an Episcopalian ) when she was nearly nine, as a gesture of rebellion against the freethinking of her parents. She...

MA was a middle-class Englishwoman with strong High Anglican and Tory opinions. At the same time, her sustained and intense application to the issue of women's status puts her squarely in the category of early...

MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

CC , granddaughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge , was named after his poetic heroine Christabel. She grew up in an English, presumably white, middle-class, literary, Anglican family. She later held Conservative views, especially on women's rights.

JW , a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as...

Her family was English, white; most of her male relations were merchants or clergymen. Various members of her family belonged to the EvangelicalAnglican group called the Clapham Sect , a coterie of social reformers and...

CMT came from a large, highly literate, dynamic, Anglican family that enjoyed the London social scene. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant who had spent much of his adult life in India. Her pseudonym...

SS belonged to the English middle class. Her religious background was Anglican , but as her biographer Frances Spalding notes, she was an agnostic who could not entirely abandon belief in a God of Love...

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

CR said I may fairly claim to be English, Scotch, and Irish. She was, however, of the Irish or Anglo-Irish gentry by predominant heritage, a Londoner by adoption, an Anglican in religion, and presumumably...

EG 's family were English, Anglican , and evidently upper middle class. The two youngest children ate their regular meals in the nursery with their Nanna, then after dinner were summoned by an electric...

Born English and white, to a leading family in a southern city of colonial America, Sophia descended through her mother from a family of Quaker heritage. Brought up in her father's Anglican religion, she for...

Baptised an Anglican , Jane was about sixteen at the time of her vocation to the inward and divine life.