Anglican Church

SH 's intense involvement in the religious controversies of the later seventeenth century led her to study, write, and publish texts both theological and devotional, often adapting Roman Catholic sources to make them usable by...

MF was a Christian feminist who began as a journalist and went on to a prolific late-twentieth-century output of books. She published poetry, a couple of novels, stories for children, biographies of remarkable Christians, collected...

CFA wrote both hymns and verse, the latter also usually adaptable for music. Her work was mainly directed towards young audiences, as she excelled at writing for children. Over the course of her career in...

EB was a seventeenth-century woman whose religious background (radical Anglican , which after the Restoration became Dissenting ) encouraged her to acquire a scholarly education. Her spiritual life embraced the practice of diary- and...

HM 's writings, published over about a decade of the mid-nineteenth century, are deeply involved with the sectarian struggles within the Church of England to which her brother, later Cardinal Newman , largely contributed. She...

CR wrote and published poetry ranging from religious poetry, love lyrics, and sonnets to narrative and dramatic verse. She published five successive volumes of verse, three collected editions, and many individual poems in anthologies and...

EJ was a publisher and political writer in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, as well as a tireless admonisher of monarchs and fervent supporter of the Church of England . Her tone has...

Helen Speight reads RS 's actions, in petitioning the government for support for herself and her children when her husband lost his income, in apparently leading a campaign fo harassment against the godly government appointee...

In Lichfield, with some local women, Susan Walker and Marie Noble , LED discussed resistance to Laud 's current reforms of the Church of England . At Lichfield Cathedral the altar had been moved away...

The College applied for incorporation as an Association under the Board of Trade in order to establish its legal existence. The document drawn up by the College's Committee professed the College's affiliation with both the...

AP was not merely an old Jacobin, but remained at least until 1810 a Bonapartist. She thought at that date that England would benefit from a French invasion to destroy the aristocracy and the...

In the year 1689 SH became a Jacobite. She felt that William and Mary had no right to the English throne, which still belonged in principle to James II . She made herself a strong...

Lady Tyrwhit's fervent Protestantism was, at this date, a highly politicized position. She and her group of court ladies were hounded by highly-placed religious traditionalists, enemies of Katherine Parr , since the queen was well...

After other countries within the Anglican Communion (but not the Church of England) began to ordain women, female priests who were visiting from abroad on holiday or on business in England would be invited by...

GRAS was a response to the Church of England 's Episcopal Act of Synod, passed in 1993, which allowed for the Church of the future to divide into two bodies, one recognizing the ordination of...