Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Maria Grey
MG 's family was presumably white; they were upper-middle-class English people, though her mother's family had been Scottish and her father descended from French Huguenot ancestry. Maria grew up influenced to some degree by Whig...
Cultural formation Joanna Trollope
JT grew up as a member of the English professional class and of the Church of England .
Cultural formation Felicia Skene
The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland ; FS 's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
She came from a Welsh entrepreneurial or upper-class family. Her class status (or in this case that of her husband) in 1913 ensured her release from prison, where she had been sent for suffrage activity...
Cultural formation Diana Athill
She was confirmed as an Anglican while she was at boarding-school, but soon afterwards realised that she did not believe in God.
Athill, Diana. Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill. Granta, 2009.
219-20
By the time I finished school I was an imperfectly informed but...
Cultural formation Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
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.
Stanford, Donald E., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 19. Gale Research, 1983.
77-8
She could be deeply contemplative...
Cultural formation Sarah Lady Piers
SLP was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican , a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Allegations by Delarivier Manley that...
Cultural formation Thomas Hardy
He was baptised into the Church of England , and as late as the age of twenty-five he was an assiduous church-goer, had some idea of becoming a clergyman, and involved himself deeply in such...
Cultural formation Jane Johnson
Susan E. Whyman locates JJ among English upper middling-sort women, below the level of gentry.
Whyman, Susan E. The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers 1660-1800. Oxford University Press, 2009.
163
Having married a clergyman, she was a strong Anglican , who was troubled by the prevalence of Dissent in...
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 Harriett Mozley
Harriett remained committed to the Church of England throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Browne
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...
Cultural formation Louisa Stuart Costello
Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
The fact that her brother received Anglican baptism years after his birth suggests that the family may perhaps have been Catholics before that.
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Cultural formation Eliza Parsons
She was born into the English provincial bourgeois or urban middling ranks, and was presumably white. She was an Anglican whose staunch commitment to Protestantism, suspicion of other branches of faith, and dogged belief in...

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