Anglican Church

She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .

MM was born into the American professional class. She decided to become a Christian (an Episcopalian ) when she was nearly nine, as a gesture of rebellion against the freethinking of her parents. She...

She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine ),

She was an Anglican from the English gentry class.

She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...

She grew up adhering to a private religion of her own, a Romantic religion of the imagination. In 1832, however, a kind of conversion experience made her a conventional Christian, an Anglican like the rest...

JS was born to an upper-class family, and later felt that her childhood friendships with the household servants had awakened in her a sense of social justice and protest. Ironically, she came to be widely...

Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.

English-identified despite her Irish birth and cosmopolitan interests, and presumably white, she came from the intelligentsia although her family was very poor. By the time of her ninety-fifth birthday, after nearly forty years residence in...

For a year of her childhood she was brought up by High Anglican aunts; but she remained ecumenical and open-minded in her attitude to religion. In 1943 she wrote that if she believed in anything...

She was thus a member of the Anglo-Irish professional class, Anglican in religion and presumably white.

Baptised an Anglican , Jane was about sixteen at the time of her vocation to the inward and divine life.

She writes occasionally like an Anglican , more often like a Deist or sceptic, and frequently as an anti-Catholic. In politics she was a pro-Robert Walpole Whig.

FAR came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican in religion. Mary Russell Mitford represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were...

WP 's Evangelical Anglican parents never frightened their children with talk of hell-fire, though from their nurse and the books read aloud by their governess she and her siblings imbibed a fear of damnation and...