Anglican Church

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

Several of her works imitate the form of sermons and express Christian piety (anti-Methodist and probably Anglican ), but this may well be simply part of her stock-in-trade.

WC was proud to be an American, whose family, Irish in origin, had been in Virginia since colonial times. She was vividly aware of the varying ethnicities that made up the melting-pot of the...

EF was a fervent if unorthodox Anglican and belonged to the English, monarchist gentry Through her husband and again through her daughter-in-law she had ties to Ireland.

The Paters were Anglican . WP later struggled with his religious faith, which had become quite strong during his youth, and eventually broke away from the Christian tradition. During his time at Oxford, he was...

CH 's parents came from long-established gentry families in their area and were said to have been regarded with deep respect by local people—a respect which they would have claimed as their due. She was...

Having found she could live with Broad Church theology as to the issue of damnation, she later encountered further difficulties over new scientific theories. These threatened her intellectual hold on religion, though her sister insists...

MM was an English Anglican of the lower middle class.

English-identified despite her Irish birth and cosmopolitan interests, and presumably white, she came from the intelligentsia although her family was very poor. By the time of her ninety-fifth birthday, after nearly forty years residence in...

JS was born to an upper-class family, and later felt that her childhood friendships with the household servants had awakened in her a sense of social justice and protest. Ironically, she came to be widely...

MR grew up in a Conservative, Anglican family of wealthy English shipyard owners. In 1922 she said, I was born a woman and I can't get over it.

Her biographer Victoria Glendinning believes that her Anglicanism was more than merely social, and cites her indignation over the modernising of services in the Book of Common Prayer, and her speaking up in support...

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

From this date Mary Ann Evans (later GE ) took a decision against participation in Anglican church rituals, and declined to attend church with her father.

She seems to have belonged to the middle or lower gentry class and to the Church of England , but she was less religious than her daughter later proved to be.