Anglican Church

Little is known about her background. Her family, however, was old-established, presumably white, certainly English, Anglican , and upper-middle-class.

Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican Church. AMH encountered many practising Catholic s while living with her maternal step-grandfather , who often entertained...

JA 's family had links with the English nobility, but shortage of cash made their gentry status less than wholly secure. JA was a strong Anglican believer.

AB came from an Irish and English background, Anglican on both sides. Her father's tireless activity as rector in Haworth and surrounding areas made her a member of a prominent and respectable, if financially strapped...

Her parents were members of the English professional class, and were devout Anglicans .

MG begins her autobiography with her local identity: I was Yorkshire born. My forebears, grandparents maternal and paternal, were all born in Yorkshire, in Leeds so far as I know. Born English therefore, she...

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 .

This Mary Sidney was born of the union of two families which were powers in the land. She made the most of her rank. She was a devout Anglican Protestant , though her father's family...

Brought up by a Roman Catholic foster-mother, sent to an Anglican mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next, she wrote later that for years...

She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism compared with the Anglican church.

EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .

Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...

She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge says her father belonged to the higher professional class: an uncle, cousin, and brother all distinguished themselves in legal fields. It is not...

Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church , JHN began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters led them to suppose that the...