Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Rosa Nouchette Carey
In religion RNC was an earnest HighAnglican . Her friend Helen Marion Burnside said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing.
Wilson, Katharina M. et al., editors. Women Writers of Great Britain and Europe: An Encyclopedia. Garland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Her membership by birth in the English nobility gave her a relative imperviousness to public opinion. She was a believing Anglican .
Cultural formation James Anthony Froude
He gradually lost faith in High Church tenets, however, a process that intensified under the influence of Thomas Carlyle . JAF was forced to relinquish his fellowship on publishing The Nemesis of Faith (1849), and...
Cultural formation Anna Maria Hall
A devout Christian , AMH was also a firm believer in the phenomenon of spiritualism.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Hall, Samuel Carter. Retrospect of a Long Life: From 1815 to 1883. D. Appleton.
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Cultural formation Flora Shaw
FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...
Cultural formation Frances Trollope
FT belonged to an English professional family and was likely white; her mother came from a well-to-do Derbyshire family, and her father, the son of a Bristol saddler, was an Anglican clergyman.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press.
4
Cultural formation Anna Wheeler
The daughter of a radical Anglican , AW was herself a materialist and thus also an atheist.
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.
Taylor, Barbara. Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century. Virago.
70
Cultural formation Fleur Adcock
This Anglican , of a kind
Adcock, Fleur. Selected Poems. Oxford University Press.
44
(still a church-goer) salutes the Presbyterian ancestors whose graves she failed to find, attends a service in a Belfast Free Church, but finds that the anti-popery sermon makes...
Cultural formation Agatha Christie
AC was an upper-middle-class Englishwoman whose father was American. She was a practising Anglican , although after her divorce she no longer took Communion.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, http://Rutherford HSS.
6, 8-9, 164
Cultural formation Eliza Dunlop
She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican church. Though she spent most of her adult...
Cultural formation Monica Furlong
At about the same time, too, she gradually adopted a personal commitment to Christianity , with the help of her Anglican parish priest, Joost de Blank .
De-la-Noy, Michael. “Obituary. Monica Furlong”. The Guardian.
Cultural formation Constance Naden
She was baptised into the Church of England but while she lived with them attended, as they did, several different Baptist chapels. CN later became a student of science and a sceptic in matters of...
Cultural formation Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
Born into the English peerage, Frances married into its topmost ranks. She was a devout Anglican all her life, brought up in the Non-juring tradition but latterly embracing an earnest and consistent Evangelicism. She took...
Cultural formation Adrienne Rich
AR described her subjectivity as split at the root.
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications.
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She was born into the white American professional class, with a Southern Protestant mother and a father who was from the North: a Jew...
Cultural formation Mary Jones
MJ was a middle-class Anglican Englishwoman.

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