Anglican Church

Her family were moneyed members of the English gentry and the Established Church .

After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker and Rousseauvian values...

SWM , born into a comfortable rank in British colonial society, became a proud American. She was proud also of her father's Welsh heritage. Her Lines to the Mansion of My Ancestors...

This Anglican , of a kind (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...

PB was the daughter of an Anglican minister. After a struggle between her High- and Low-Church training, PB was confirmed at her High Anglican or Episcopalian boarding school in New York. In her twenties...

Growing up in an Anglican Englishfarming family with philanthropic habits, CC supposedly became interested in emigration following her introduction to an injured soldier brought home by her father when she was a young child. The...

SLP was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican , a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession. Allegations by Delarivier Manley that...

Despite her mother's Unitarian influence, LDG never entirely conformed to any denomination in her religious beliefs. Even at the age of fourteen she maintained her own views: my religion was that of the birds and...

He was baptised into the Church of England , and as late as the age of twenty-five he was an assiduous church-goer, had some idea of becoming a clergyman, and involved himself deeply in such...

Susan E. Whyman locates JJ among English upper middling-sort women, below the level of gentry. Having married a clergyman, she was a strong Anglican , who was troubled by the prevalence of Dissent in...

Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.

ES appears to have been securely rooted in the English middle class, presumably white, and evidently from her later writings an Anglican .

Her religious upbringing provided some exposure to Catholicism, which attracted her. By her mid-twenties she found herself in much perplexity about my religion . . . and I could not find rest for my soul...

Brought up, educated, and ordained in the Anglican Church , JHN began, with others, to entertain fears for its future as a national church. Emancipation of Catholics and Dissenters led them to suppose that the...

Born English, to what he later described book-loving, Anglo-Catholic parents of the professional class, he shed his religious belief at about thirteen, well after his recognition of his own homosexuality, and later still acquired...