Anglican Church

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.

Before the age of six, EG had renounced orthodox Christianity ; her grandmother had enlisted a clergyman to teach Elinor and her sister the catechism, but both girls rebelled against Christian dogma. In...

ML was baptised into the Church of England at five weeks old. Her early poetry speaks of belief in Father God, heaven, and Judgment Day.

Born into an English Evangelical Anglican and intellectual family, WP believed that work and Christianity offered guidance through difficult times. She was a socialist by conviction, who admired the toughness of the post-war generation and...

LRR was born to an English father and French mother, both of the nobility. She was a devout Anglican .

MT 's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland .

EW was apparently a conservative, Puritan Englishwoman of the gentry or professional class. She belonged to the Church ofEngland ; she attacks both sectaries and Catholics. In politics she was a monarchist.

She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans .

EMD was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant and her father a Catholic who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD adopted...

MF belonged to the English professional upper classes, and was a devout Anglican .

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

SWM , born into a comfortable rank in British colonial society, became a proud American. She was proud also of her father's Welsh heritage. Her Lines to the Mansion of My Ancestors...

Trained at home in prayers learned by heart, with some scope for improvising, and given a religious grounding in Anglican ism at school,ES realised that she was not an irreligious person only...

AW came from a wealthy and socially prominent Protestant Irish landowning family; she was the god-daughter of the Irish nationalist Henry Grattan . Her family life was intellectual and enlightened, as well as prosperous: the...

As a member of the English professional classes and an adherent of the established Anglican church, she was presumably white and relatively privileged, but little is known of her life. Her mother's family were Dissenters .