Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Frances Reynolds
She was born into an English west-country professional or just-gentry family, and was a devout Anglican , who cared about whether or not her friends went to church and disapproved of her brother Joshua painting...
Cultural formation Mary Prince
The Methodist Church had broken away from the Church of England in 1812, but it seems that five years later there was no gulf between the two groups, at least in the Caribbean.
Cultural formation Susannah Gunning
SG came from the English, presumably white, gentry or professional class, and married into an Irish gentry family which was just securing ties, through socially upward marriage, with the nobility. She belonged to the Church of England
Cultural formation Anne Locke
AL was born into the flourishing urban bourgeoisie of her time. She was apparently English, though the names of both her parents suggest Welsh extraction. Her father said he was neither Lutheran nor yet Tyndalin...
Cultural formation Frances Burney
FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.
Hemlow, Joyce. The History of Fanny Burney. Clarendon, 1958.
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Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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Cultural formation Charlotte Yonge
CY 's immediate family and ancestors were devout English believers of the old High Church tradition of the Anglican faith which descended from the Non-Jurors of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She had a...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Tollet
ET was born a middle-class Englishwoman of the urban, professional, intellectual class. In later terminology she was one of the daughters of educated men. She adhered to the Anglican religion (both the King James version...
Cultural formation Mary Sewell
Both of MS 's parents were members of the Society of Friends , as were her husband's family. She remained a Friend, or Quaker, until 1835, when she joined the Church of England after flirting...
Cultural formation William Morris
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...
Cultural formation Sarah Lady Pennington
SLP was an Englishwoman, born into the professional class, presumably white, who was married for her money. By her marriage moved into the upper reaches of the gentry. She became déclassée on the breakdown of...
Cultural formation Frances Ridley Havergal
FRH was confirmed in the Anglican Church ; her particular views were Evangelical.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
Cultural formation Jennifer Johnston
She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice.
qtd. in
Quinn, John, editor. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl. Methuen, 1986.
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On atmosphere, she leaned to the Catholic Church (she had first...
Cultural formation Bathsua Makin
BM was a middle-class, Anglican , Puritan, royalist Englishwoman.
Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press, 1998.
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Cultural formation Phyllis Bentley
Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her...
Cultural formation Rosa Nouchette Carey
In religion RNC was an earnest HighAnglican . Her friend Helen Marion Burnside said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing.
qtd. in
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland, 1997.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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