Anglican Church

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.)

Born into the English middling ranks, she followed her father in having a turbulent history of denominational allegiance. He went from Anglicanism to heterodox views and millenarianism. She went from membership of the Established Church

CB came from an Irish and English background, Anglican on both sides. Her father's tireless activity as rector in Haworth and surrounding areas made her a member of a prominent and respectable, if financially strapped...

She belonged securely to the English professional or gentry class, and to the Church of England .

She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture...

Alice Thompson (later AM ) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English...

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...

She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she...

Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...

The Anglican baptism of CD 's children may—perhaps—represent a final severing of her Jewish roots.

EI took after her mother in being personally very devout as an adult, though she was nearly twenty when for the first time she aprehended or took seriously to heart a sermon as applying to...

From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

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...