Anglican Church

CY 's immediate family and ancestors were devout English believers of the old High Church tradition of the Anglican faith which descended from the Non-Jurors of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She had a...

By birth and marriage LJL belonged to the English nobility. Her father was sharply attentive to issues of rank. LJL was born at almost the same time as the Church of England , and her...

ACS came from a noble family. His maternal grandparents were George, third earl of Ashburnham and his wife (who was born Lady Charlotte Percy ). His paternal grandfather, Sir John Edward Swinburne , owned an...

IM was born Irish but grew up in England from babyhood, with holidays in Ireland. Her mother's family, with a history as Anglo-Irish adherents of the Church of Ireland , had come down in the...

Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her...

Born into an EnglishEvangelicalAnglican and intellectual family, WP believed that work and Christianity offered guidance through difficult times. She was a socialist by conviction, who admired the toughness of the post-war generation and was...

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.

She was apparently born into the English lower middle class. Her novels reflect an interest in Scotland, a solid British patriotism, and a dislike of Presbyterianism compared with the Anglican church.

Her membership by birth in the English nobility gave her a relative imperviousness to public opinion. She was a believing Anglican .

EJ 's parents came from the English landowning and professional classes. They were Anglican s and their daughter evidently later leaned towards Puritanism .

The Times obituary of PF describes her as coming from a gifted Jewish family on her father's side, but it was not an observant family. G. B. Stern refers to PF

She was born into a well-established English family; Charlotte Yonge says her father belonged to the higher professional class: an uncle, cousin, and brother all distinguished themselves in legal fields. It is not...

Ellen Price was a middle-class Englishwoman from a prominent business family, presumably white, and was brought up an Anglican ; her father had a particular interest in questions of church doctrine. Her early years were...

Daughter and wife of Calvinist clergymen, she was a fervent, Bible-based Anglican or Puritan .

AO was born to English, presumably white, parents. She was one of a large gentry Northumberland family, and was brought up in the Church of England . She had eminent admirals among her forebears and...