Anglican Church

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...

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...

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...

James Brabazon , her official biographer, describes her as deeply conventional despite her often unorthodox life decisions (particularly her sexual relationships and her child born outside wedlock). DLS was the daughter of an Anglican

Harriett remained committed to the Church of England throughout her life and was deeply distressed when her brother John Henry Newman converted to Catholicism. She evidently saw herself as something of a specialist in theological...

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...

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...

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.

Elizabeth Cavendish (later Lady Bridgewater) was born into the English, monarchist nobility, and married within it too. In later life, as her writings make clear, she was passionately committed to her Protestant, Anglican faith.

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

Both parents came from Dissenting backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist . She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican church, chose from an...

The Literary World was apparently mistaken in calling EJWthe novelist of Evangelical Dissent and in speculating as to whether or not she ever left the Anglican Church. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...

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...

At Cadiz in Spain, OE had a spiritual reawakening which he calls conversion, after which he worshipped as a Methodist as well as an Anglican . His conversion came as the climax and resolution...

At some point after CSJ met her long-time partner Edith Craig , she converted from her family's Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .