Anglican Church

Lucie Austin (later LDG ) was baptised and confirmed as an Anglican on the last Sunday of the year; she was sixteen.

English-identified despite her Irish birth and cosmopolitan interests, and presumably white, she came from the intelligentsia although her family was very poor. By the time of her ninety-fifth birthday, after nearly forty years residence in...

JS was born to an upper-class family, and later felt that her childhood friendships with the household servants had awakened in her a sense of social justice and protest. Ironically, she came to be widely...

MR grew up in a Conservative, Anglican family of wealthy English shipyard owners. In 1922 she said, I was born a woman and I can't get over it.

She was confirmed in the Church ofEngland , and still believes Jesus to be a perfect model: of kindness, empathy, lack of pride. She even occasionally takes Communion, but says that ever since she was...

Although she was baptised in the Church of England (at three years old, in a naval dockyard chapel), she says that throughout her life she was happy to worship in any Christian church, no matter...

AB sprang from two different cultures. Her mother was a white Southern American from before the Civil War and in religion an Episcopalian (in English terms an Anglican), while her father was English and was...

Born into the English gentry class, Grace Sharington was brought up by her mother in the new Protestant, Anglican religion, in habits of daily prayer and meditation. She believed that salvation would come not through...

Baptised a Congregationalist , that is in contemporary terms a Dissenter , MMC later became a practising Anglican . She was deeply religious.

If this was Ephelia, she grew up in an extremely wealthy, noble family and an incomparably privileged environment, with King James I her honorary grandfather as well as her godfather, and with fine literature produced...

She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine ),

She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Daughter of a French, Roman Catholic

Though not an active member of the Church of England , SG did admire the Church and its role in British culture. By her late adulthood, however, she also developed an interest in certain tenets...

She was born a Creole or white West Indian of English, Scottish, and French origins. She made her adult life as an Englishwoman. Her father was an Anglican while her mother was a bad Catholic...

EB was born into an Englishgentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was her...