Anglican Church

Connections

Connections Sort descending Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda
She came from a Welsh entrepreneurial or upper-class family. Her class status (or in this case that of her husband) in 1913 ensured her release from prison, where she had been sent for suffrage activity...
Cultural formation Githa Sowerby
GS 's father's family had been in the glass manufacturing business for several generations. The business was at its peak in her early years and her family was rich and respected. But its empire-building days...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Elstob
She was a middle-class, English, presumably white, High Tory Anglican .
Cultural formation Gerard Manley Hopkins
GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...
Cultural formation Mary Ann Kelty
MAK thought that the existential angst she suffered during her childhood was unique until she read Margaret Fuller 's Memoirs.
Kelty, Mary Ann. Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. W. Pickering.
134
She felt her unhappiness as a child and young woman was good for...
Cultural formation Emmuska, Baroness Orczy
Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic , she became a committed...
Cultural formation L. T. Meade
She was born into the Anglo-Irish middle class and brought up as a member of the Church of Ireland .
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode.
223
A friend said that her faith was essentially a religion of brightness and of love.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode.
229
Cultural formation Elizabeth Strutt
ES appears to have been securely rooted in the English middle class, presumably white, and evidently from her later writings an Anglican .
Cultural formation Clara Balfour
Herself baptised (after her father's death) into the Church of England , she later converted and joined the Baptists with the rest of her family in 1840.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Rhoda Broughton
RB was presumably white, and was born into an Anglican , upper-middle-class family, with an English father and Irish mother. She grew up at Broughton Hall near Eccleshall in Staffordshire, an Elizabethan manor house...
Cultural formation Mary Julia Young
MJY 's origins were apparently somewhere in the English middling ranks, possibly with some family connection to the theatre. She was presumably white. Her writings suggest that she belonged to the Church of England and...
Cultural formation Elinor Glyn
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.
Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton.
14-15
Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch.
17
In...
Cultural formation Margery Lawrence
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.
Lawrence, Margery, and Shane Leslie. Fourteen to Forty-Eight. Robert Hale.
20-1
Cultural formation Winifred Peck
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...
Cultural formation Lady Rachel Russell
LRR was born to an English father and French mother, both of the nobility. She was a devout Anglican .

Texts

No bibliographical results available.