Anglican Church

She was brought up in the Anglican church, but very definitely as one of the Anglo-Catholic minority. After her brother's death she turned against religion.

Critics Margaret Bradstock and Louise Wakeling write that AC 's faith was strongly challenged by the deaths of her first two children: this was probably . . . the beginning of her questioning of Divine...

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...

After she married and had children, EMD converted to the Anglican faith.

At an Anglican convent in Cornwall run by the Little Sisters of the Poor , Lady Ottoline Bentinck (later Morrell) met Mother Julian , one of her early mentors.

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...

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...

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.

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

EH was an Englishwoman, baptised into the EstablishedChurch , in her own words born in obscurity, and never emerging beyond the lower stations in life.

GJ at this time began to question her religious faith; she apparently sought the counsel of a Catholic priest, but found it unsatisfying. Having read an essay by Thomas Carlyle during the Christmas...

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...

JD 's family belonged to the gentry class. They were AnglicanPuritans in religion and supporters of the parliament side in the English Civil War.

MP was born into the English rural professional class on the fringes of the gentry, and was a member of the Church of England .

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...