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 .

AB chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists . Her family belonged to the Church of England (though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself).

Born into the English gentry class, she was an Anglican and a fervent Tory and Jacobite , who believed, in fact, that these two terms were synonymous.

MD may have come from the lower classes. She became a middle-class Whig, proud of her Irish background and her status as widow of an Anglican clergyman.

An earnest Protestant, believing in the right and duty for men and women to read the Bible for themselves, she had a formative influence on the English Reformation and the birth of the Church of England

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...

As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...

While Mrs Meeke the English writer was wrongly identified by scholars as a comfortably and securely upper-middle-class wife of an Anglican clergyman, her frenetic production of novels was at least surprising. Now, however, that she...

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...

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...

She was born into an English, gentry, strongly Anglican family, whose influence remained an important factor all her life.

MD 's family background is 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 joined the Society of Friends