Anglican Church

After about three years as a widow EB 's mother married again, when her daughter Elizabeth was about seven. Her second husband, Nathaniel Bradshaw , was a clergyman of the Church of England , a...

Elizabeth Lawrence (later EB ) was much sought after, implicitly for marriage, by members of the Established Church who wished to reclaim her for orthodoxy: her second husband, writing about fifty years after the event...

JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...

JB was, however, always careful to distinguish her spiritual beliefs from any particular religious institutions. In a letter of 1883 she acknowledged that I go to the Church once a Sunday out of a feeling...

In 1980 the Church of England formally commemorated her in a revised edition of the Book of Common Prayer, marking December 30, the date of her death, as a day of observance. This recognition...

During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...

ASB 's family background is English, middle-class, and Anglican . Initially, her mother was an atheist and her father took the children to an Anglican church, but both parents held Quaker values, and eventually they...

Born into the English gentry class, she was an Anglican and a fervent Tory and Jacobite , who believed, in fact, that these two terms were synonymous.

MC was of American-Scottish heritage. She was remarkably open-minded about religion, and supported the disestablishment of the Anglican church.

AC worshipped in the AnglicanChurch both as a child and adult, and her early novellas, hymns, and poems emphasize her strong religious faith. In middle life, probably owing to the deaths of her first...

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...

For the wife of an Anglican clergyman, the content was certainly unexpected. Indeed, as A. G. Stephens has noted: The shock to the Rev. George Cross [her husband] was overwhelming.

In religion RNC was an earnest HighAnglican . Her friend Helen Marion Burnside said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing.

EC was an English, middle-class Anglican .

BC , English on both sides, claimed to be able to trace her paternal lineage to the fifteenth century and her maternal one to the eleventh. Her biographer, Tim Heald , however, points that her...