Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Anglican Church
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Sarah Grand | 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... |
Cultural formation | Lucille Iremonger | 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... |
Cultural formation | Josephine Butler | JB
was, however, always careful to distinguish her spiritual beliefs from any particular religious institutions. In a letter of 1883 she acknowledged that I go to the Church once a Sunday out of a feeling... |
Cultural formation | Julia Wedgwood | Her parents were connected to the Unitarian
tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood
as well as to the largely Anglican
evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect
centred close to their home in South London... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Shirley | Born into the English gentry, ES
was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic: |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Hamilton | 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... |
Cultural formation | Geraldine Jewsbury | GJ
at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic
priest, but found it unsatisfying. Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press, 2000. 222 Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935. 24 |
Cultural formation | Isabella Bird | IB
came from an English, professional, upper-middle-class family background, strongly religious in the Evangelical wing of the Church ofEngland
. She grew up in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment. Checkland, Olive. Isabella Bird and ’A Woman’s Right to Do What She Can Do Well’. Scottish Cultural Press, 1996. 3-6 Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird (Mrs. Bishop). John Murray, 1906. 1 Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research, 1996. 166:30 |
Cultural formation | Catharine Macaulay | |
Cultural formation | Mary Lady Champion de Crespigny | She evidently sprang from the English gentry class within which she also married. Yet her origins and connections are obscure, whereas her husband's family (French Huguenots in origin) was conspicuously well-connected. She was presumably white.... |
Cultural formation | John Donne | JD
was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic
. He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his... |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | IM
was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland
, had come down in the... |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Thomas | She said she was of the middle rank of society, of the old school, both in politics and religion. What she meant by this politically was conservatism: being perfectly satisfied with the powers that be... |
Cultural formation | Mary Scott | MS
grew up in a prosperous, middle-class household, in which religion was the centre of everyday life and activity. Most sources agree that her family were Protestant Dissenters. Though Anna Seward
said they were Anglicans |
Cultural formation | Susan Hill |
Timeline
16 August 1851: Harriet Brownlow Byron founded the Anglican...
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16 August 1851
Harriet Brownlow Byron
founded the AnglicanSociety of All Saints Sisters of the Poor
at 67 Mortimer Street in the town of London Colney in Hertfordshire.
Anson, Peter F. The Call of the Cloister: Religious Communities and Kindred Bodies in the Anglican Communion. Editor Campbell, A. W., Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1964.
317, 319
3 November 1855: An advertisement marked the launch of the...
Writing climate item
3 November 1855
An advertisement marked the launch of the conservative (high Tory
and Anglo-Catholic
), weekly Saturday Review; it focused on Politics, Literature, Science, and Art.
Broomfield, Andrea. “Much More Than an Antifeminist: Eliza Lynn Linton’s Contribution to the Rise of Victorian Popular Journalism”. Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol.
29
, No. 2, 2001, pp. 267-83. 274
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
553-4
Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
153
1857: Dean Howson advocated the establishment of...
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1857
Dean Howson
advocated the establishment of an Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican Church
; such an Order was recognized by the Lambeth Conference
of Anglican bishops only in 1897.
Stott, Mary. “Ordination of Women: Flickering flame passed to new generation”. Times, 24 Sept. 1981, p. 12.
12
November 1860: Thomas Hill Green became one of the first...
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November 1860
Thomas Hill Green
became one of the first laymen to hold a fellowship at Balliol College
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
18 July 1862: The Bishop of London, Archibald Campbell...
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18 July 1862
The Bishop of London, Archibald Campbell Tait
, set apartElizabeth Ferard
to be a deaconess in the Anglican Church
, and to head an Order of Deaconesses, even though no such order as yet...
26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...
National or international item
26 July 1869
The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone
disestablished the Church of Ireland
and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords
.
“Gladstone and Ireland 1868-74”. A Web of English History: The Peel Web: Irish Affairs.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
1871: The University Test Act abolished all religious...
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1871
The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England
) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford
and Cambridge
) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.
Veale, Sir Douglas. “Modern Oxford”. Handbook to the University of Oxford, 1969th ed., Oxford University Press, 1969, pp. 29-50.
32-3
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
xvii
1 January 1871: The Disestablishment Act came into effect;...
National or international item
1 January 1871
The Disestablishment Act came into effect; the (Anglican) Church of Ireland
ceased to be a national body on a par with the Church of England.
MacDonagh, Oliver. Ireland: the Union and its Aftermath. George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
22-3
Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
13
Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
230
1875: The British parliament passed the Public...
National or international item
1875
The British parliament passed the Public Worship Regulation Act, which was designed to curb the growing enthusiasm in the Church of England
for ritual.
“Introduction to Overdale by Emma Jane Worboise”. Literary Heritage: West Midlands.
January 1876: The monthly Friendly Leaves, published in...
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January 1876
The monthly Friendly Leaves, published in London, began as the first magazine of the Girls' Friendly Society
of the Church of England
.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
8
1880: The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society...
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1880
The Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society
was established.
Donaldson, Margaret. “’The Cultivation of the Heart and the Moulding of the Will . . . ’: The Missionary Contribution of the Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India and the East”. Women in the Church, edited by William J. Sheils and Diana Wood, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 429-42.
434
January 1880: The GFS Advertiser, devoted to the moral...
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January 1880
The GFS Advertiser, devoted to the moral welfare of young women, began publishing from the Girls' Friendly Society
of the Church of England
.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
9
January 1881: India's Women, the magazine of the Church...
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January 1881
India's Women, the magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society
, began monthly publication in London.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
10
1883: The Church Schools Company was founded in...
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1883
The Church Schools Company
was founded in London.
Purvis, June. A History of Women’s Education in England. Open University Press, 1991.
77
Barnard, Howard Clive. A History of English Education from 1760. 2nd ed., University of London Press, 1961.
165
January 1883: Friendly Work began monthly (later quarterly)...
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January 1883
Friendly Work began monthly (later quarterly) publication in London from the Girls' Friendly Society
of the Church of England
.
Doughan, David, and Denise Sanchez. Feminist Periodicals, 1855-1984. Harvester Press, 1987.
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