Anglican Church

Connections

Connections Author name Sort descending Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Evelyn Underhill
Despite EU 's religious commitment, she was not particularly close to her paternal uncle Ernest , an Anglican vicar and the only other family member who expressed more than casual interest in the Church.
Armstrong, Christopher J. R. Evelyn Underhill. Mowbrays, 1975.
5-6
Textual Features Evelyn Underhill
Like Practical Mysticism, this small volume attempts to synthesize religious experience and everyday life, but EU is not here concerned primarily with mysticism. She is instead interested in describing what she finds to be...
Textual Production Evelyn Underhill
EU 's writings about religious doctrine and practice include the historical and scholarly. The Times Literary Supplement warmly praised her most valuable essay in The Meaning of the Groups, edited by F. A. M. Spencer
Reception Evelyn Underhill
EU received most of her accolades during her lifetime. In addition to becoming the first woman both to lecture in religion at Oxford and head retreats in the Anglican Church , she was elected a...
Cultural formation Alison Uttley
She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose...
Cultural formation Anna Jane Vardill
She belonged to the English professional class (though her father had been an American colonist before the Revolution) and the Anglican Church . She was presumably white.
Cultural formation Sophie Veitch
The Veitch family were presumably white, and belonged to the Scottish gentry, with male members holding professional positions.
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, 1990.
Burke, John. Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry. Burke’s Peerage.
They were Anglicans with (judging by the positions held by Sophie's father) distinctly Low-Church leanings.
Family and Intimate relationships Sophie Veitch
SV 's father, the Reverend William Douglas Veitch , was born on 5 August 1801, a younger son of a landed family with an estate at Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire. After serving as rector of...
Textual Features Sophie Veitch
Though the title spotlights her alone, the heroine is set firmly in her social milieu: a coastal part of Scotland with a luxury estate on an offshore island called Moyle, all unknown territory to...
Cultural formation Margaret Veley
MV 's middle-classAnglican family had both English and Swiss forebears. It had all the conservatism common to this group in society; Margaret defined her own liberal and independent thinking against that of her family.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Margaret Veley. “Preface”. A Marriage of Shadows, Smith, Elder, 1888, p. vii - xxiv.
vii, ix
Cultural formation Queen Victoria
Princess Alexandrina Victoria was confirmed an Anglican at the Chapel Royal, St James's, London.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964.
47
Cultural formation Queen Victoria
QV was a devout Anglican , as befitted the head of the Church of England . (When in Scotland, however, she attended the local Presbyterian , that is Church of Scotland , parish church.)
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Queen Victoria
This text is the third in the series of selected letters between Victoria and her eldest daughter. The six years of correspondence included in this volume reveal royal opinions on a wealth of important events...
Cultural formation Joan Vokins
Born in the yeoman class, she was brought up an Anglican . In youth and for years after her marriage she felt spiritually lost, as a ship without an anchor among the merciless waves.
qtd. in
Graham, Elspeth et al., editors. Her Own Life. Routledge, 1989.
216
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Joan Vokins
She celebrates Friends as the Sons and Daughters of the Lord, justifies their religious choice, and calls on their Anglican persecutors to repent, threatening them with hellfire forever if they do not.

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