Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Louisa Baldwin
The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society.
Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler, 1987.
20
Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969.
7-8
Baldwin's father, a Wesleyan minister, was more liberal in his religious influence than her mother. He hoped Louisa would grow up to be...
Cultural formation Brigid Brophy
With Irish forebears, BB felt she was mainly Irish despite her English nationality and American inheritance. Though the beliefs of her mother's sect affected her upbringing, she was baptised an Anglican .
Brophy, Brigid. “Afterword”. The King of a Rainy Country, Virago, 1990.
274-5
As an...
Cultural formation Frances Cornford
She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge 's The Daisy Chain, she had...
Cultural formation Margaret Fell
Born in the English gentry and brought up an Anglican , she became a Quaker in middle age. After this she quickly became a leader in the movement. Her class status, unusual among Quaker preachers...
Cultural formation Anna Jane Vardill
She belonged to the English professional class (though her father had been an American colonist before the Revolution) and the Anglican Church . She was presumably white.
Cultural formation Mary Stewart
MS was born to an Englishman and a New Zealander, into the middle class and the Church of England . Her family moved when she was a baby from Sunderland, where her father was...
Cultural formation Christina Rossetti
She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...
Cultural formation Ruth Padel
RP is an Englishwoman and a member of the Church ofEngland .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Her surname bears witness to her father's ethnic origins as one of the Wends or Sorbs, a Slavic people hailing from the region...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains
qtd. in
Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
38
, June 1991, pp. 165-72.
170
to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...
Cultural formation Mary Kingsley
MK 's family was English and presumably white, but it embodied several internal contradictions. Through her father she belonged to the professional classes, but on her mother's side she sprang from the working class. Her...
Cultural formation Eliza Meteyard
EM came from a professional Anglican family. She was an advocate of social reform, particularly of educational reform, and of wider roles for women.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970.
Cultural formation Henrietta Battier
HB 's writings demonstrate that she was not only Irish but also an Irish nationalist, a Whig, a Protestant (probably Church of Ireland ) and a sympathiser with freemasonry.
Battier, Henrietta. The Protected Fugitives. James Porter, 1791, http://Bodleian: 280 i 105.
xiv, 120-30, 158ff, 27-31, 163ff, 181-2, 190-2
Cultural formation A. S. Byatt
ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...
Cultural formation Elizabeth White
Nothing is known of her family except that they were Anglicans . They probably belonged somewhere in the English middling classes.
Cultural formation Catharine Trotter
While a young woman CT converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism , the religion of her mother's family. In 1704 she maintained that differences among different branches of the Christian religion were of no importance...

Timeline

January 1802: The Christian Observer was launched, as a...

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January 1802

The Christian Observer was launched, as a journal Conducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

1803: The Wesleyan Conference decided that their...

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1803

The Wesleyan Conference decided that their association (still within the Anglican Church but soon to form the new body of the Methodist Church ) should bar women from preaching.
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
207

Perhaps late 1803: Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott,...

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Perhaps late 1803

Mrs Marriott (almost certainly Martha Marriott , 1737-1812, of Mendlesham in Suffolk) published Elements of Religion, Containing a Simple Deduction of Christianity , from its Source to its Present Circumstances.
Londry, Michael. The Lisle Bamford McEachern Collection.

1811: The National Society for Promoting the Education...

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1812: The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church...

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1812

The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church of England to form the Methodist Church .
Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press, 1994.
49

14 August 1829: King's College, University of London, was...

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14 August 1829

King's College, University of London , was founded and given a charter; it opened its doors two years later.
Harte, Negley. The University of London 1836-1986. Athlone, 1986.
61-80
The World of Learning. 45th ed., Allen and Unwin, 1995.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

14 July 1833: John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's...

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14 July 1833

John Keble preached a sermon at St Mary's Church, High Street, Oxford (the University Church), on National Apostacy; it is viewed as the beginning of the Tractarian Movement.
Marriott, Sir John A. R. Oxford, Its Place in National History. Clarendon, 1933.
172

1837: The debate over sacramental wine raged in...

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1837

The debate over sacramental wine raged in the temperance movement: Rev. Beardsall of Manchester campaigned for the substitution of grape juice or unfermented wine at the altar.
Shiman, Lilian Lewis. Crusade against Drink in Victorian England. Macmillan, 1988.
69-70, 72

15 August 1838: The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed;...

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15 August 1838

The Irish Tithe Commutation Act was passed; a dubious victory at best for the peasantry.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
22
The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed by J. Bentham, 1762–2026.

1843: The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising...

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1843

The Edinburgh Review chastised the advertising industry for blatant lies, particularly in the use of fictitious product endorsements.
Richards, Thomas. The Commodity Culture of Victorian England: Advertising and Spectacle, 1851-1914. Stanford University Press, 1990.
22, 84

January 1846: An Anglican newspaper titled The Guardian...

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January 1846

An Anglican newspaper titled The Guardian began publication in London, supporting the Tractarian movement in the Church of England.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.

18 July 1848: The Sisters of St John's House was established...

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18 July 1848

The Sisters of St John's House was established at King's College Hospital for the newly founded Anglican nursing order, the Community of Nursing Sisters of St John the Divine .
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
205
Poovey, Mary, and Florence Nightingale. “Introduction”. Cassandra and Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought, edited by Mary Poovey and Mary Poovey, New York University Press, 1993.
xix
Cartwright, Frederick F. et al. The Story of King’s College Hospital and its Medical School. Editor Britten, D. J., Farrand Press, 1991.
21
Abel-Smith, Brian. A History of the Nursing Profession. Heinemann, 1960.
19
Williams, Katherine. “From Sarah Gamp to Florence Nightingale: A Critical Study of Hospital Nursing Systems from 1840 to 1897”. Rewriting Nursing History, edited by Celia Davies, Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 41-75.
46, 51

16 October 1848: Priscilla Lydia Sellon founded the Church...

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16 October 1848

Priscilla Lydia Sellon founded the Church of EnglandSisterhood of Mercy of Devonport and Plymouth in Exeter.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
239-40, 262

14 September 1850: A new convent for the Anglican Sisterhood...

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14 September 1850

A new convent for the AnglicanSisterhood of the Holy Cross began construction in Osnaburgh Street in London.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
240

8 August 1851: The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce...

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8 August 1851

The system of tithes (one-tenth of the produce of agricultural land paid yearly for the support of the Church of England ) was abolished at the instigation of William Blamire the younger (1790-1862).
Maycock, Christopher. A Passionate Poet: Susanna Blamire, 1747-94: A Biography. Hypatia, 2003.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Blamire

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