Anglican Church

Both her parents were exceedingly religious, her father from a lineage of Evangelical or hot-gospellingAnglican s while her mother's family had been Plymouth Brethren . Together, they administered heavy doses of religion...

She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic , Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts...

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...

SS was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland .

ER was born to presumably white, English, middle-class parents. She was a practising Anglican and leaned towards High Church doctrine. She became a staunch Tory who frequently published articles in the Conservative Quarterly Review.

EI took after her mother in being personally very devout as an adult, though she was nearly twenty when for the first time she aprehended or took seriously to heart a sermon as applying to...

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...

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...

She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was...

BWC 's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church , and...

CF 's family belonged to genteel and cultured London society. She was a member of the Church of England and a conservative in politics.

MMS was born into the English professional class and the Anglican faith. After she went to India the fact that she was white became a crucial part of her identity. After meeting Henry Martyn she...

AP was an Englishwoman from the professional class, who developed radical political attitudes. With her mother and her sister Anne , she caused a serious family rift by defecting from her father's Anglicanism .

She grew up Anglican like her parents, and shared this faith with the uncle who brought her up. Her aunt, however, was a Presbyterian , so that Elizabeth had an example of toleration before her...