Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Mary Renault
MR was confirmed as an Anglican , and enjoyed church ceremonies, but it was Plato 's belief in the individual which provided her with a lifelong ethical code. Later in life she discovered the works...
Cultural formation Lucy Aikin
LA was a middle-classEnglishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was her...
Cultural formation Hannah More
In religion she was firmly committed to the national church: an Evangelical Anglican . Deeply suspicious of Methodists and Dissenters, she was eclectic in her opinions, and sometimes made her co-religionists suspicious of her. She...
Cultural formation Agatha Christie
AC was an upper-middle-class Englishwoman whose father was American. She was a practising Anglican , although after her divorce she no longer took Communion.
Morgan, Janet. Agatha Christie: A Biography. Collins, 1984, http://Rutherford HSS.
6, 8-9, 164
Cultural formation Eliza Dunlop
She came from an Anglo-Irish, professional family background, was presumably white (a key factor in her experience after she arrived in Australia), and belonged to the Anglican church. Though she spent most of her adult...
Cultural formation Charlotte Grace O'Brien
CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Cultural formation Mary Rich Countess of Warwick
She grew up as a merely nominal Anglican without any inward and spiritual faith.
qtd. in
Mendelson, Sara Heller. The Mental World of Stuart Women: Three Studies. Harvester Press, 1987.
80
She later acquired intense Puritan piety. The memoirist Elizabeth Walker credited Mary Rich's conversion to her husband, the Rev. Anthony Walker .
Walker, Anthony, and Elizabeth Walker. The Vertuous Wife: or, the Holy Life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker. J. Robinson, A. and J. Churchill, J. Taylor, and J. Wyat, 1694.
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Cultural formation Elizabeth Tipper
ET seems to have belonged to the English middling ranks; she was a strong and sincere Anglican .
Cultural formation Martha Hale
She belonged to the English gentry class and to the Church of England
Cultural formation Elizabeth Sewell
ES was confirmed into the Anglican Church.
Sewell, Elizabeth. The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell. Editor Sewell, Eleanor L., Longmans, Green, 1907.
40, 63
Cultural formation W. H. Auden
Around the same time he took up again the Anglicanism of his childhood, this time in the form of the USEpiscopalian church. In this he was influenced at the time by such socially-conscious Christian...
Cultural formation Elizabeth (Cavendish) Egerton Countess of Bridgewater
Lady Elizabeth Cavendish's birth family was not remarkable for its piety, but she may have been an exception among them. As an unmarried girl she wrote her name in a copy of St Peter's Complaint...
Cultural formation William Congreve
He was born into the northern English minor country gentry, but he grew up (as an Anglican ) in Ireland, spending his childhood and youth there.
Cultural formation Anne Conway
AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican
Cultural formation Margiad Evans
ME wrote that she hated many of the forms of Christianity and other religions . . . . because of the sacrifice at the centre of them—the sacrificial blood. This hatred was connected with her...

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