Anglican Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Prince
The Church of England would not marry slaves; she insisted on Daniel's joining the Moravian church before she would agree to be his wife. Her marriage infuriated her owners.
Prince, Mary, and Ziggi Alexander. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Editor Ferguson, Moira, Pandora, 1987.
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She later said, I had...
Family and Intimate relationships Christina Rossetti
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Fanny Kingsley
Although Fanny had previously expressed a desire to remain single and perhaps to join an Anglican sisterhood, her relationship with Kingsley accelerated quickly. Kingsley later referred to this first meeting as eye-wedlock and his real...
Family and Intimate relationships Oliver Goldsmith
His father was a curate in the Church of Ireland (that is an Anglican) and also, to make ends meet, a small-scale farmer. He died in 1747.
Family and Intimate relationships Maria Theresa Longworth
In a Scotch marriage ceremony, William Charles Yelverton (later Viscount Avonmore) read the Church of England marriage service aloud to MTL in Edinburgh.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003.
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Family and Intimate relationships Ann Jebb
AJ 's husband John Jebb resigned his Church of England preferments including his Cambridge lectureship.
Jebb, John. “Memoirs”. The Works, Theological, Medical, Political, and Miscellaneous, of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S., edited by John Disney, T. Cadell, J. Johnson, and J. Stockdale; J. and J. Merrill, 1787, pp. 1: 1 - 227.
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Meadley, George William. “Memoir of Mrs. Jebb”. The Monthly Repository, Vol.
7
, Oct. 1812, pp. 597 - 604, 661.
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Family and Intimate relationships Anna Letitia Barbauld
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...
Friends, Associates Maude Royden
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
Intertextuality and Influence Vera Brittain
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Sarah Daniels
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.
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. 2nd, with revisions, Oxford University Press, 1956.
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This funny, bitter, rough-edged play...
Literary responses May Drummond
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...
Literary responses Mary Renault
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...
Literary responses Hannah More
Next year saw a rich crop of reviews. Sydney Smith in the Edinburgh Review, while praising HM 's style and her skill at manipulating her readers, damned the novel as over-moralized, strained and unnatural...

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