Anglican Church

Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism . (As the Puritan John Field put it...

FRH was confirmed in the Anglican Church ; her particular views were Evangelical.

She was a strong proponent of the Anglican Church .

Leaving Olney as a widow, JJ wrote with an evident sense of moral righteousness of her conservative resistance to AnglicanEvangelicalism . I made a strong proof of my Courage, made a Bold Stand against...

As a peer's daughter who had no brother, LAC was highly privileged. She writes of her religion (Anglican ) as an important part of her education.

JCM was confirmed in the Church of England by Thomas Secker , probably at St James's, Piccadilly, having apparently not received this sacrament as a child.

She was deeply influenced by her father, an Irish Nationalist politician from the gentry class, who taught her to be proud of her Irish descent. She was a Protestant for the first four decades of...

She seems to have been of Welsh extraction, and was presumably white. Her brothers had solid professional careers; she presumably belonged, like others of her family, to the Church of England .

Her securely middle-class family had aspirations to rise higher in the social scale, but their financial status steadily declined. They were High Anglicans .

QV was a devout Anglican , as befitted the head of the Church of England . (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian , that is Church of Scotland , parish church.)

From a family which was financially precarious though middle-class by birth, MW seems to have questioned the religious fervour typical of its other members (at first Anglican , in due course Methodist ), while also...

Of Irish and English descent, Emily was raised in the Church of England as the daughter of a clergyman. Almost nothing is known directly of her personality and opinions; one biographer characterizes her as secretive...

As an adult, she converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism . She later became a vegetarian, and involved herself with two alternative movements, Spiritualism and Theosophy, before breaking away from the Theosophical Society to form the...

While Mrs Meeke the English writer was wrongly identified by scholars as a comfortably and securely upper-middle-class wife of an Anglican clergyman, her frenetic production of novels was at least surprising. Now, however, that she...

EF came from an upper-middle-class, Anglican family. While her childhood was apparently happy, she chafed at the restrictions imposed by her father, brothers, and other figures of authority, resenting the constraints placed on her...