Anglican Church

As a peer's daughter who had no brother, LAC was highly privileged. She writes of her religion (Anglican ) as an important part of her education.

After taking his degree in 1842, he remained at Oxford and was elected to a Fellowship at Oriel College . Religious doubts led him to resign his fellowship before he was required to take orders...

According to Sally Mitchell , FPC herself recognized that her writing had lost its wit and charm as she became immersed in the antivivisectionist cause. Charges of inaccuracy in her antivivisection writing came to...

FPC waded into High Church debates over the Bible, challenging institutionalised forms of Christianity and the dogma of Infallible Inspiration, in her theological treatise Broken Lights, An Inquiry into the Present Condition and...

Raised as an Evangelical Christian , FPC later became the first heretic in her family, which boasted five archbishops and a bishop. She made a name for herself as a theist theologian, regularly attending Unitarian...

Her brothers were Charles Cobbe , born 1811 (who succeeded his father as landowner), Thomas Cobbe , born 1813 (who was called to the bar, wrote music, edited Shakespeare, and wrote novels and history, all...

CC , granddaughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge , was named after his poetic heroine Christabel. She grew up in an English, presumably white, middle-class, literary, Anglican family. She later held Conservative views, especially on women's rights.

During the timeCC and Yonge co-wrote novels, they also co-edited the Evangelical journal The Monthly Packet. Coleridge eventually succeeded Yonge as editor.She also wrote reviews for this journal, which was intended...

Her family had strong ties to the Church of England and she remained a devoted Christian throughout her life, though she did not share her father's fondness for sermons. She could be deeply contemplative...

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...

JC came from an intellectually-minded, English, Anglican , presumably white family of the professional class.

Baptised a Congregationalist , that is in contemporary terms a Dissenter , MMC later became a practising Anglican . She was deeply religious.

Both parents came from Dissenting backgrounds; Ivy's maternal grandfather was a fervent Methodist . She herself, after inventing fictitious deities as a child and being baptised and confirmed in the Anglican church, chose from an...

He was born into the northern English minor country gentry, but he grew up (as an Anglican ) in Ireland, spending his childhood and youth there.

AC belonged by birth and marriage to the English upper classes, though many of her friends and associates came from signficantly lower down the social scale. Her rationalism and quietism made her an eccentric Anglican