Anglican Church

She was born into the English middle class, and became a sincere and earnest Anglican . She grew up in an industrial, working-class area, in which her family was clearly marked out as superior to...

FAR came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican in religion. Mary Russell Mitford represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were...

HM had almost no contact with the Methodists, but despite her strong commitment to the Church of England she was broadly tolerant of classical Nonconformity . During the Blagdon controversy she admitted in a letter...

She was brought up in the Anglican church, but very definitely as one of the Anglo-Catholic minority. After her brother's death she turned against religion.

Critics Margaret Bradstock and Louise Wakeling write that AC 's faith was strongly challenged by the deaths of her first two children: this was probably . . . the beginning of her questioning of Divine...

After she married and had children, EMD converted to the Anglican faith.

MF came from the English gentry class, and she was of partly Roman Catholic heritage. Martha herself grew up a Catholic but became nominally an Anglican .

After this decisive step the former bickering and negotiation continued. Two women visited her, very likely at the instigation of their husbands, to beg her to stay. After a couple of months, however, this 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...

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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...