Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Jane Barker
Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...
Cultural formation Charlotte Dacre
The Anglican baptism of CD 's children may—perhaps—represent a final severing of her Jewish roots.
Cultural formation Sarah Fielding
SF 's family on both sides belonged to the English gentry; her father had noble relations. She was a practising Anglican .
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 Ellen Wood
Ellen Price was a middle-class Englishwoman from a prominent business family, presumably white, and was brought up an Anglican ; her father had a particular interest in questions of church doctrine. Her early years were...
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 Rachel Speght
Daughter and wife of Calvinist clergymen, she was a fervent, Bible-based Anglican or Puritan .
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 L. S. Bevington
She was born into a white and wealthy English family. It had Quaker roots on both sides, but there are questions about whether or not she was brought up in the Society of Friends. The...
Cultural formation Lady Jane Cavendish
LJC was born to privilege and her father's career took her into the highest ranks of English society. He professed himself a devout member of the Church of England (into which his children followed him)...
Cultural formation Benjamin Disraeli
In his political career and the high office which he attained, BD did something unprecedented in England for someone of his Jewish ethnicity. By the early twenty-first century he remained Britain's only Jewish Prime Minister...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Freke
Her Anglican piety extended to keeping a coffin by her bed to remind her of her latter end, but did not extend to submission to authority. I disputte nott your lordships rightt, and farr be...
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.

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