Anglican Church

She said she was of the middle rank of society, of the old school, both in politics and religion. What she meant by this politically was conservatism: being perfectly satisfied with the powers that be...

MS grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters.

Her family had strong ties to the Church of England and she remained a devoted Christian throughout her life, though she did not share her father's fondness for sermons. She could be deeply contemplative...

AG appears to have come from the English middle class, perhaps the urban middle class, and to have been, at least late in life, a pious and active Christian. Her works show her to be...

She was born into the English professional class: its upper ranks, if the motto on her published title-page is a family one. As befitting her marriage to a clergyman, she was a strong member of...

DL came from the English gentry class. She was anti-Catholic, leaning towards the Puritan arm of the Anglican church.

NS 's family were professional Anglican s in two senses: her father and both grandfathers were clergymen. Her parents brought their children up with formal family prayers every morning. On Sundays they attended church twice...

She grew up adhering to a private religion of her own, a Romantic religion of the imagination. In 1832, however, a kind of conversion experience made her a conventional Christian, an Anglican like the rest...

Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.

CEP abandoned the Anglican ism of her family and had an early interest in Pantheism, but ultimately she became an agnostic.

He came from a white, English, and Anglican family. His father was a successful financier who brought the family up in great comfort at their Essex mansion. The patriarch's death in 1847 left the Morris...

A devout Christian , AMH was also a firm believer in the phenomenon of spiritualism.

By birth and marriage LJL belonged to the English nobility. Her father was sharply attentive to issues of rank. LJL was born at almost the same time as the Church of England , and her...

Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism . She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons.

Her immediate, nuclear family was an enclave of agnosticism while her extended family was unanimously Anglican —though not uniformly, since it was sharply divided between High and Low Church. Her memoirs emphasise the moral strength...