Anglican Church

AL was a middle-class Englishwoman (with relatives in trade and the professions, and forebears in the nobility) who admired the political liberties of the new American colonies. She was an Anglican , but unusually relaxed...

From a family which was financially precarious though middle-class by birth, MW seems to have questioned the religious fervour typical of its other members (at first Anglican , in due course Methodist ), while also...

IB came from an English, professional, upper-middle-class family background, strongly religious in the Evangelical wing of the Church ofEngland . She grew up in an intellectually stimulating and encouraging environment.

She evidently sprang from the English gentry class within which she also married. Yet her origins and connections are obscure, whereas her husband's family (French Huguenots in origin) was conspicuously well-connected. She was presumably white....

JD was brought up in the old religion, as a Roman Catholic . He was probably already deep in theological study, undertaken for his own satisfaction, when during the year that he turned twenty-one his...

She was a Cartesian in philosophy, and an Anglican in religion (though the influence of her Dissenting grandmother caused her an attack of doctrinal panic over predestination at the age of fifteen). She says she...

He was baptised into the Church of England , and as late as the age of twenty-five he was an assiduous church-goer, had some idea of becoming a clergyman, and involved himself deeply in such...

MJJ 's illness was accompanied by depression and a spiritual crisis. She began to question the compatibility of her religious faith and her writing career, and felt immense guilt over her desire to be publicly...

Over the course of her life, RM 's religious practices ranged between Anglican and Anglo-agnostic. She was initially given instruction in the Anglican faith by her mother. As an early adolescent (like George Eliot 's...

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...

Both her parents were exceedingly religious, her father from a lineage of Evangelical or hot-gospellingAnglican s while her mother's family had been Plymouth Brethren . Together, they administered heavy doses of religion...

She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic , Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts...

Her parents were connected to the Unitarian tradition descending in the family from Josiah Wedgwood as well as to the largely Anglican evangelical and philanthropic Clapham Sect centred close to their home in South London...

Her mother and father were respectively northern English and Irish ascendency. Both came from the gentry class and seem to have been white. Brought up in the Church of England , AK was a deeply...

She was an Anglican : questioning on issues of religion, but a firm believer. Historian Karen O'Brien places her as a late Latudinarian, belonging to a group within the Church of England which was...