Anglican Church

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Anna Mary Howitt
She was born into a family of Quakers . Her parents, however, were less strict in their observances than their own parents had been, and later strayed into other beliefs. Her mother dressed Anna Mary...
Cultural formation Eleanor Sleath
ES belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church , though gothicists Michael Sadleir and Devendra P. Varma , who had different theories...
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 Adrienne Rich
AR described her subjectivity as split at the root.
qtd. in
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
13: 253
She was born into the white American professional class, with a Southern Protestant mother and a father who was from the North: a Jew...
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 Eliza Bray
AEB 's father's family was Anglican .
Cultural formation Sara Coleridge
Sara received Anglican baptism sooner after her birth than her elder siblings had, which shows that her father 's Unitarian convictions were slackening. Though little is known about her own early religious beliefs, she was...
Cultural formation Buchi Emecheta
BE 's mother eventually became a Christian. BE is herself an Anglican .
Emecheta, Buchi. Head Above Water. Heinemann, 1994.
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Olendorf, Donna, editor. Something About the Author 66. Gale Research, 1991.
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Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican , EW renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waughs Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and FallJane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181-0.
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Cultural formation Sarah Green
SG seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican , yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers , millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite
Cultural formation Catharine Parr Traill
CPT never strayed far from the middle-class English values of her upbringing. Throughout her life she was a faithful and unquestioning Anglican . She has nevertheless achieved the status of a Canadian pioneer foremother. Her...
Cultural formation Naomi Jacob
NJ was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost...
Cultural formation Flora Shaw
FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...
Cultural formation Amy Levy
AL was an upper-middle-class Jew from a family which had been English for over a century, though they travelled the world for career purposes more freely than most English people.
Many reference books still repeat...
Cultural formation John Bunyan
JB 's spiritual struggle dated back to his unregenerate teens. Under the influence of his first wife he began attending the establishedchurch and developed exaggerated reverence for its priests,
Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin, 1666.
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but he later saw this...

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