Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
Anglican Church
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Cultural formation | Anna Maria Hall | |
Cultural formation | Eleanor Sleath | ES
belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church
, though gothicists Michael Sadleir
and Devendra P. Varma
, who had different theories... |
Cultural formation | Barbara Blaugdone | She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and... |
Cultural formation | Iris Murdoch | One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism
: a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable. Dawson, Jennifer. “Impressions of Iris Murdoch, Teacher, in 1951”. The Ship, Vol. 91 , pp. 52-3. 53 |
Cultural formation | Sarah Chapone | As a country clergyman's daughter SC
was an Anglican
of the English professional class. Her correspondence with John Wesley
bears witness to the strength and immediacy of her Christian faith, but she did not agree... |
Cultural formation | Jean Rhys | JR
was at one time attracted to Catholicism
, mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns Rhys, Jean, and Diana Athill. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography. Deutsch. 77 |
Cultural formation | Judith Drake | She seems to have come from the professional class and was probably a strong Anglican
and monarchist. |
Cultural formation | Muriel Spark | MS
was baptised into the Anglican
Church by the Reverend C. O. Rhodes
, a controversial ex-editor of the Church of England Newspaper. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 132 Walker, Dorothea. Muriel Spark. Twayne. 3 Whittaker, Ruth. The Faith and Fiction of Muriel Spark. Macmillan. 25 |
Cultural formation | Evelyn Underhill | |
Cultural formation | Monica Furlong | MF
was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. 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. |
Cultural formation | Elizabeth Helme | She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism
compared with the Anglican
church. |
Cultural formation | Samuel Johnson | |
Cultural formation | Anna Eliza Bray | |
Cultural formation | Ruth Padel | RP
is an Englishwoman and a member of the Church ofEngland
. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Cultural formation | Sara Coleridge |
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.
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
), weeklySaturday Review; it focused on Politics, Literature, Science, and Art.
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.
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
.
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 officially existed.
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
.
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.
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.
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.
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
.
1880: The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society...
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1880
The Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society
was established.
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
.
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.
1883: The Church Schools Company was founded in...
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1883
The Church Schools Company
was founded in London.
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
.
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