Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Frances Notley
FN 's christening in the Church of England is listed as having taken place at Old St Pancras Church in London on 24 January 1843. If there is no mistake in this record, her being...
Cultural formation John Donne
JD was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic . He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his...
Cultural formation Ellen Wood
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...
Cultural formation Rachel Speght
Daughter and wife of Calvinist clergymen, she was a fervent, Bible-based Anglican or Puritan .
Cultural formation Emma Parker
She says her family had gentry status but no money. She was Welsh by domicile and probably by birth. Her Christian (presumably Anglican ) faith appears to have been important to her.
Cultural formation Anna Kingsford
According to biographer Edward Maitland , AK first became deeply interested in Anglican theology after the birth of her daughter, while her husband Algernon was studying for the ministry. She began attending classes with him,...
Cultural formation Pat Arrowsmith
Both her parents were exceedingly religious,
Arrowsmith, Pat. I Should Have Been a Hornby Train. Heretic Books, 1995.
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her father from a lineage of Evangelical or hot-gospellingAnglican s while her mother's family had been Plymouth Brethren . Together, they administered heavy doses of religion...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Cavendish Bradshaw
She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic , Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts...
Cultural formation Anne Whitehead
She was baptised an Anglican , and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends . Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around...
Cultural formation Frances Trollope
FT belonged to an Englishprofessional family and was likely white; her mother came from a well-to-do Derbyshire family, and her father, the son of a Bristol saddler, was an Anglican clergyman.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
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Cultural formation May Sinclair
Deane invested considerable time and effort, around early 1894, attempting to persuade MS out of her unorthodox questioning and back to the Anglican church. Sinclair, however, found that she could not accept the existence of...
Cultural formation Frances Reynolds
She was born into an English west-country professional or just-gentry family, and was a devout Anglican , who cared about whether or not her friends went to church and disapproved of her brother Joshua painting...
Cultural formation Rumer Godden
For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything...
Cultural formation Charlotte Eliza Humphry
She was thus a member of the Anglo-Irish professional class, Anglican in religion and presumably white.
Cultural formation Susanna Moodie
In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle , Methodist secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon...

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