Anglican Church

ML was baptised into the Church of England at five weeks old. Her early poetry speaks of belief in Father God, heaven, and Judgment Day.

She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...

Charlotte was a member of the Scottish nobility on the side of her father (a duke). She had the example before her of her beautiful mother's dramatic rise into that class (from impoverished Irish gentry...

RC was born into the English middle class. She remained committed to the Conservative Party and the Church of England throughout her life, though her religious belief must surely have been complicated by her interest...

Mary was shy, intense, and introspective. Her biographer Gladys Mary Coles says that both her parents came from moderately wealthy middle-class society, each with strong Church of England connections. Her parents farmed for pleasure...

The third great influence on CY 's life was John Keble , the Tractarian churchman. He was already famous when he became a regular visitor in the home of the twelve-year-old Charlotte, though they had...

BP was brought up in the Church of England , and her family was active in their parish. Biographer Orphia Jane Allen comments that BP 's treatment of the Church of England in her...

EG came from the professional class, and from the special milieu of the theatre. She regarded herself as Irish, but lived much of her adult life in England and was of Welsh and English extraction...

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...

BC , English on both sides, claimed to be able to trace her paternal lineage to the fifteenth century and her maternal one to the eleventh. Her biographer, Tim Heald , however, points that her...

The Church ofEngland was still resolved against ordaining women when in 1986 a vote was passed forbidding invitations to visiting, foreign women priests to celebrate Holy Communion. MF and her associates responded by founding the...

She was baptised in the Church of England but by 1912, MAD had converted to Catholicism . Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing.

Antonia converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a...

She was a proudly middle-class Englishwoman, whose contact with the upper classes and subsequent travel abroad only reinforced her conviction of the superiority of her own rank and nationality. She was apparently a member of...

Her family were British members of prosperous, successful Jewry. In 1884 D'Israeli had only been dead four years and tolerance was very much the order of the day. So that anti-semitism was at a very...