Anglican Church

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Cultural formation E. M. Delafield
After she married and had children, EMD converted to the Anglican faith.
Powell, Violet. The Life of a Provincial Lady. Heinemann.
54
Cultural formation Elizabeth Freke
Her Anglican piety extended to keeping a coffin by her bed to remind her of her latter end, but did not extend to submission to authority. I disputte nott your lordships rightt, and farr be...
Cultural formation C. E. Plumptre
CEP abandoned the Anglican ism of her family and had an early interest in Pantheism, but ultimately she became an agnostic.
Gould, Frederick James. Chats with Pioneers of Modern Thought. Watts.
30
Cultural formation Elizabeth Shirley
Born into the English gentry, ES was until about the age of twenty brought up an earnest heretic:
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
that is to say, a member of the Church of England . Her eldest brother, for...
Cultural formation Dorothy Whipple
DW was an Englishwoman born into the professional middle class. She was an Anglican in religion, who wrote: Life without God is meaningless—for me at any rate,
Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph.
42
and, during the first months of the...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Hands
EH was an Englishwoman, baptised into the EstablishedChurch , in her own words born in obscurity, and never emerging beyond the lower stations in life.
Hands, Elizabeth. The Death of Amnon. Printed for the Author.
dedication
Cultural formation Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic priest, but found it unsatisfying.
Bloom, Abigail Burnham, editor. Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers. Greenwood Press.
222
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin.
24
Having read an essay by Thomas Carlyle during the Christmas...
Cultural formation Catharine Macaulay
CM was an Anglican with strong ties to Dissenting reformers. Her outspoken comments on religious matters made many people suppose that she was a sceptic, but this seems not to have been the case. Later...
Cultural formation John Dryden
JD 's family belonged to the gentry class. They were AnglicanPuritans in religion and supporters of the parliament side in the English Civil War.
Cultural formation Elma Napier
EN was exposed to a range of Christian faiths. Though her mother was Episcopalian , the family attended a Presbyterian kirk (the Church of Scotland) for a time during Elma's early childhood. One of her...
Cultural formation Dorothy Richardson
DR 's father also rejected his family's religious nonconformism. While most of them were Baptists, he married as an Anglican and took his family to St Helen's Anglican Church in Abingdon.
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 36. Gale Research.
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Fromm, Gloria G. Dorothy Richardson: A Biography. University of Illinois Press.
3-4
Cultural formation Rachel Speght
Daughter and wife of Calvinist clergymen, she was a fervent, Bible-based Anglican or Puritan .
Cultural formation Margaret Holford
Her parents belonged securely to the minor English gentry; her husband followed a profession as a clergyman of the Church of England , to which she presumably belonged.
Cultural formation Penelope Aubin
Most of what was formerly believed about PA 's background has turned out to be mistaken. She was born out of wedlock to a mother in the English gentry and a father who was not...
Cultural formation Sheila Kaye-Smith
From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ).
Walker, Dorothea. Sheila Kaye-Smith. Twayne.
18
She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...

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