Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT came from a large, highly literate, dynamic, Anglican family that enjoyed the London social scene. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant who had spent much of his adult life in India. Her pseudonym...
Cultural formation Stevie Smith
SS belonged to the English middle class. Her religious background was Anglican , but as her biographer Frances Spalding notes, she was an agnostic who could not entirely abandon belief in a God of Love...
Cultural formation Charlotte Riddell
CR said I may fairly claim to be English, Scotch, and Irish.
qtd. in
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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She was, however, of the Irish or Anglo-Irish gentry by predominant heritage, a Londoner by adoption, an Anglican in religion, and presumumably...
Cultural formation E. Owens Blackburne
She was Irish by birth and family, presumably white, and probably Protestant, which is to say a member of the Church of Ireland .
O’Donoghue, David James. The Poets of Ireland. Gale Research, 1968.
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Boase, Frederic. Modern English Biography. F. Cass, 1965, 6 vols.
Cultural formation Harriet Downing
She seems to have belonged to the upper range of the English middle classes; she had at least an impressive array of contacts, shown in her subscription lists. Baptised into the Church of England ...
Cultural formation Coventry Patmore
After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Margaret Holford
Her parents belonged securely to the minor English gentry; her husband followed a profession as a clergyman of the Church of England , to which she presumably belonged.
Cultural formation Annie Keary
Her mother and father were respectively northern English and Irish ascendency. Both came from the gentry class and seem to have been white. Brought up in the Church of England , AK was a deeply...
Cultural formation Damaris Masham
She was an Anglican : questioning on issues of religion, but a firm believer. Historian Karen O'Brien places her as a late Latudinarian, belonging to a group within the Church of England which was...
Cultural formation Kate Parry Frye
Kate Parry Frye, suffrage organizer, playwright, and prolific diarist, was English (with some Scottish antecedents), middle-class, and presumably white. She was a conventional Anglican church-goer, but was excited after the war by the preaching of...
Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
Her family were Unitarian s but her father converted to the Church of England . She followed his example and was confirmed as an Anglican while at boarding school in Bournemouth. But the hold of...
Cultural formation Melesina Trench
She was born into the Anglo-Irish upper middle class, with dignitaries in the Church of Ireland on both sides of her family, whose origin was French Huguenot.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Frances Sheridan
FS was born a middle-class Anglican Irishwoman (though her father was English, and after her death her grand-daughter-biographer chose to think of her as English).
Sheridan, Frances. “Introduction”. The Plays of Frances Sheridan, edited by Richard Hogan and Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Press, 1984, pp. 13-35.
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Cultural formation Mary Astell
MA was a middle-class Englishwoman with strong High Anglican and Tory opinions. At the same time, her sustained and intense application to the issue of women's status puts her squarely in the category of early...
Cultural formation Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

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.
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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.
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, 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...

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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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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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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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