Anglican Church

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Anthologization Susanna Hopton
George Hickes included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH to Henry Turberville on choosing the Anglican over...
Characters Georgiana Fullerton
A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice.
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.
It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...
Characters Lucas Malet
The class difference between this pair is figured in the religion of their respective fathers, which each has rejected. Colthurst's father was a fashionable preacher who regularly packed his Anglican church; Jenny's is an ex-seaman...
Cultural formation E. Nesbit
EN was born in the English middle class (though she had some Irish and Swedish blood) and brought up as an Anglican . She became a socialist and a feminist, although with some reservations and...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Richardson
They were apparently earnest in their Anglican religion. As an adult ER seems to have been a conservative in that religion, opposed to the radical reforms inflicted on the Church under the Commonwealth, such as...
Cultural formation Phebe Gibbes
She seems to have belonged to the middle or lower gentry class and to the Church of England ,
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but she was less religious than her daughter later proved to be.
Cultural formation Catherine Hubback
As the daughter of a naval officer, CH belonged to the English professional class, and was an Anglican .
Cultural formation Elizabeth Burnet
EB was born into an English gentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was...
Cultural formation Lady Caroline Lamb
She was confirmed into the Church of England and despite her family's lax sexual morals, she imbibed from them the habit of taking her religion seriously. She was much distressed by her agnostic husband's attempts...
Cultural formation Isa Craig
Isa grew up poor and Scottish.
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.
Her family's denominational affiliation is unknown, but as an adult she belonged to the Church of England .
Rendall, Jane. “’A Moral Engine’? Feminism, Liberalism and the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>English Woman’s Journal</span&gt”;. Equal or Different: Women’s Politics 1800-1914, edited by Jane Rendall, Basil Blackwell, pp. 112-38.
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Hirsch, Pam. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel. Chatto and Windus.
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Cultural formation Susan Miles
Ursula Wyllie (later SM ) broke away from her family's Anglican faith and became an idealistic agnostic before her marriage.
Cultural formation Anna Williams
When AW felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England 's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up.
Johnson, Samuel. The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Editor Redford, Bruce, Princeton University Press.
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Cultural formation Anne Finch
She was born in the English upper class and baptised into the Anglican church. A monarchist by family tradition, she developed a Jacobite identity after James II was ousted from his throne.
Cultural formation Maria Grey
MG 's family was presumably white; they were upper-middle-class English people, though her mother's family had been Scottish and her father descended from French Huguenot ancestry. Maria grew up influenced to some degree by Whig...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Bentley
She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans .

Timeline

1527: A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer, wrote...

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1527

A young English priest, Thomas Cranmer , wrote two letters to Johannes Dantiscus , whom he had met on a royal mission to the Holy Roman Emperor in Spain, where Dantiscus was then Polish ambassador.

November 1534: The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch,...

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November 1534

The Act of Supremacy declared the monarch, not the Pope , head of the Church of England.

October 1536: The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion...

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October 1536

The Pilgrimage of Grace, a major armed rebellion against Henry VIII 's religious reforms and dissolution of monasteries and convents (in effect, against the birth of the Church of England ), spread across the...

Late 1552: Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury...

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Late 1552

Thomas Cranmer , Archbishop of Canterbury under Edward VI , produced an Anglican revised Book of Common Prayer.

1559: Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth...

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1559

Negotiating between opposing factions, Elizabeth I sought to establish the English Church under her headship; Thomas Cranmer 's Prayer Book of 1552 became the official Book of Common Prayer.

1563: Convocation of the Church of England drew...

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1563

Convocation of the Church of England drew up the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, as a statement of what it is necessary for an Anglican to believe.

August 1598: Full-scale revolt against English rule (that...

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August 1598

Full-scale revolt against English rule (that is, rule over the Roman Catholic Church majority by a newly-settled Anglican elite) broke out in Ireland in the form of Tyrone's Rebellion, led by Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone .

16 January 1604: One year into his reign in England, King...

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16 January 1604

One year into his reign in England, King James I received a petitionthat there might bee a newe translation of the Bible to improve on existing, imperfect English versions.

2 May 1611: A committee of bishops completed and issued...

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2 May 1611

A committee of bishops completed and issued the English Bibletranslation generally called either the King James Bible (in North America) or the Authorised Version (in Britain).

October 1636: The Scottish Privy Council was ordered to...

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October 1636

The Scottish Privy Council was ordered to issue a proclamation compelling the Scottish Kirk to use the new (Anglican ) Scottish Prayer Book designed by Laud .

April 1637: Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly...

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April 1637

Alexander Henderson of Leuchars, a godly leader of the Scottish Kirk , held a secret meeting with a group of Edinburgh matrons to enlist their aid in resistance against the imposition of the new (...

23 July 1637: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer was used...

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23 July 1637

The AnglicanBook of Common Prayer was used for the first time, according to Charles I 's order, at St Giles's Church in Edinburgh, the centre of the Scottish (Presbyterian ) Church.

28 February 1638: At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen...

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28 February 1638

At Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotsmen opposed to Charles I 's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish (Presbyterian ) Church signed a National Covenant against such innovations: in...

27 March-June 1639: Charles I made war on the Scottish Covenanters,...

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27 March-June 1639

Charles I made war on the ScottishCovenanters , or adherents of Presbyterianism .

20 August 1640: The Scots (provoked by Charles I's imposition...

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20 August 1640

The Scots (provoked by Charles I 's imposition of the AnglicanBook of Common Prayer on the Scottish Presbyterian Church in 1637) invaded England, and for the second time in eighteen months their monarch marched against them.

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