Anglican Church

SV 's father, the Reverend William Douglas Veitch , was born on 5 August 1801, a younger son of a landed family with an estate at Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire. After serving as rector of...

Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...

Her brothers were Charles Cobbe , born 1811 (who succeeded his father as landowner), Thomas Cobbe , born 1813 (who was called to the bar, wrote music, edited Shakespeare, and wrote novels and history, all...

JJ 's husband belonged to the conservative, not the evangelical wing of the Church of England . He was concerned at the influence of Dissenting beliefs in his congregation and in 1739, when George Whitefield

Her mother, born Arabella FitzGibbon , was eldest daughter of John FitzGibbon, who had converted from Catholicism to Protestantism in order to qualify for the law, in which career he proved highly successful. She was...

He later assumed his mother's birth-name, becoming Warre Cornish. He was older than his wife by seventeen years, and had fallen love with her when she was only sixteen.They had eight children together: in the...

He was of Swiss origin, ten years her senior (born in 1729 at Nyon near Geneva), and a fellow-evangelical. In 1773 John Wesley had approached him about taking on leadership of the Methodist movement...

CR 's sister Maria was three years her senior and the bond between them was close. She became a governess and an author of textbooks (Exercises in Idiomatic Italian through Literal Translation from the...

Rochemont Barbauld came from a French Huguenot family and had a strong foreign accent as a result of spending his childhood abroad. He was ALB 's junior by six years, small in stature, emotionally unstable...

Through her work to raise the status and opportunities of women in the Anglican ministry, MR not only formed a working friendship with Susan Miles , but also (in 1912 or 1913) met Edith Picton-Turbervill

The words of the title are used to describe marriage in the Church of England 's Book of Common Prayer. In her foreword to the novel, VB explained that Honourable Estate purports to show...

The title intentionally mangles the opening of a prayer for late evening from the AnglicanThe Book of Common Prayer: Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord. This funny, bitter, rough-edged play...

From the first, however, MD 's preaching was polarizing, attracting not only praise but also criticism more hostile than Cookworthy's. She was blamed for her social manner, for being visibly of a higher rank than...

Early reviewers linked The Charioteer to the growing reform movement in Britain because of its polemical stance and the coincidental occurrence of the Gielgud trial. Even the Church of England 's official newspaper approved the...

This inflammatory book, probably CP 's best known work, was championed by the Church of England (even though the Church disagreed with her views on votes for women).A review by Rebecca West in the Clarion...