Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Elizabeth Joscelin
EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .
Cultural formation Anne Manning
She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge says her father belonged to the higher professional class:
Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett, 1897.
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an uncle, cousin, and brother all distinguished themselves in legal fields.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It is not...
Cultural formation Louisa Baldwin
The family's narrow social life revolved around the Methodist society.
Taylor, Ina. Victorian Sisters. Adler and Adler, 1987.
20
Middlemas, Keith, and John Barnes. Baldwin: A Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969.
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Baldwin's father, a Wesleyan minister, was more liberal in his religious influence than her mother. He hoped Louisa would grow up to be...
Cultural formation Brigid Brophy
With Irish forebears, BB felt she was mainly Irish despite her English nationality and American inheritance. Though the beliefs of her mother's sect affected her upbringing, she was baptised an Anglican .
Brophy, Brigid. “Afterword”. The King of a Rainy Country, Virago, 1990.
274-5
As an...
Cultural formation Frances Cornford
She was brought up an agnostic, and not christened until about 1894, by which time, under the influence of the Christian message delivered in works like Charlotte Yonge 's The Daisy Chain, she had...
Cultural formation Margaret Fell
Born in the English gentry and brought up an Anglican , she became a Quaker in middle age. After this she quickly became a leader in the movement. Her class status, unusual among Quaker preachers...
Cultural formation Anna Jane Vardill
She belonged to the English professional class (though her father had been an American colonist before the Revolution) and the Anglican Church . She was presumably white.
Cultural formation Mary Stewart
MS was born to an Englishman and a New Zealander, into the middle class and the Church of England . Her family moved when she was a baby from Sunderland, where her father was...
Cultural formation Christina Rossetti
She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...
Cultural formation Ruth Padel
RP is an Englishwoman and a member of the Church ofEngland .
“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Her surname bears witness to her father's ethnic origins as one of the Wends or Sorbs, a Slavic people hailing from the region...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains
qtd. in
Smith, Julia J. “Susanna Hopton: A Biographical Account”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
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, June 1991, pp. 165-72.
170
to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...
Cultural formation Mary Kingsley
MK 's family was English and presumably white, but it embodied several internal contradictions. Through her father she belonged to the professional classes, but on her mother's side she sprang from the working class. Her...
Cultural formation Eliza Meteyard
EM came from a professional Anglican family. She was an advocate of social reform, particularly of educational reform, and of wider roles for women.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2026, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research, 1965.
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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.
Lightbown, Ronald W., and Eliza Meteyard. “Introduction”. The Life of Josiah Wedgwood, Cornmarket Press, 1970.
Cultural formation Agnes Beaumont
AB chose her own faith, joining first the Independents and then the Baptists . Her family belonged to the Church of England (though her elder brother seems to have been a dissenter like herself).
Cultural formation Mary Caesar
Born into the English gentry class, she was an Anglican and a fervent Tory and Jacobite , who believed, in fact, that these two terms were synonymous.

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...

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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.
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Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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Mitchell, Sally. Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer. University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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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.
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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.
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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1 January 1871: The Disestablishment Act came into effect;...

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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.
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Morton, Grenfell. Home Rule and the Irish Question. Longman, 1980.
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Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 21st ed., Ward, Lock and Bowden, 1895.
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1875: The British parliament passed the Public...

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
9-11

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.
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Barnard, Howard Clive. A History of English Education from 1760. 2nd ed., University of London Press, 1961.
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