Anglican Church

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...

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...

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

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...

JB was a Scottish writer: though she lived most of her adult life in London, her letters show her vividly aware of her Scots identity, not least in her deliberate use of the Scotticisms which...

FB was from an upper-middle class English family in which many men were Anglican clergymen. The family's social position meant that, as a child, she enjoyed the luxury of self-education in libraries collected by her...

Brought up as an Anglican , she developed in the 1890s a strong interest in eastern mysticism and the occult, and played an active role in the Order of theGolden Dawn and then in the...

WP 's EvangelicalAnglican parents never frightened their children with talk of hell-fire, though from their nurse and the books read aloud by their governess she and her siblings imbibed a fear of damnation and...

Born into the English peerage, Frances married into its topmost ranks. She was a devout Anglican all her life, brought up in the Non-juring tradition but latterly embracing an earnest and consistent Evangelicism. She took...

EJ was born an Englishwoman, and presumably white. In maturity she was a member of the Church of England (with a low opinion both of the Russian Orthodox and of the Roman Catholic Churches )...

She belonged to the English upper or upper-middle class, and by religion to the Evangelical wing of the Church of England . She never married or had her own children, though she adopted and cared...

She came from an upper middle-class business family whose background included Quaker and Anglican elements. She staunchly upheld the class system, identifying herself with the upper classes. As an adult, she assumed an anti-suffrage stance...

During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...

ED was unusual in her combination of conservatism and feminism. She was a strong supporter of the Conservative Party and the Establishment, and sought members of the Church and nobility for her committees.