Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Harriet Hamilton King
Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism ...
Cultural formation Louisa Anne Meredith
LAM had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English...
Cultural formation Joanna Trollope
JT grew up as a member of the English professional class and of the Church of England .
Cultural formation Felicia Skene
The Skenes may have belonged to the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland ; FS 's Anglican devotional works support this idea. She also as an adult involved herself in the OxfordMovement .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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 Elizabeth Bentley
She belonged by birth to the English working class and was presumably white. Her parents were Anglicans .
Cultural formation Ethel M. Dell
EMD was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant and her father a Catholic who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD adopted...
Cultural formation Anne Francis
Daughter, wife, and mother of clergymen, AF was English, Anglican , and presumably white.
Cultural formation Ann Gomersall
AG was baptised in the Church of England at Portsmouth. Her parents were unlikely to have omitted this sacrament when she was little if they were Anglicans; it seems therefore that she probably converted...
Cultural formation Lucy Hutchinson
She grew up in the Puritan part of the Anglican faith. She came to share some of the beliefs of the Baptist s, and later still of the Presbyterian s or Independents . She then...
Cultural formation Rosamond Lehmann
RL came from a family well-established among England's upper-middle-class cultural elite, and regarded herself as English. She descended on her mother's side from one of New Hampshire's early lieutenant-governors, and on her father's from European...
Cultural formation Rosamund Marriott Watson
She came from an English, presumably white, middle-class, Anglican family. As an adult she became an agnostic, and also entertained an interest in spiritualism.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Cultural formation Elizabeth Sophia Tomlins
She belonged to the English professional class, and was presumably white and a member of the Church of England .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins
Cultural formation William Shakespeare
Scholarly debate continues to rage on the question of whether WS subscribed to the Church of England or whether he adhered to the minority and persecuted Old Religion of Catholicism . Supporters of the Catholic...
Cultural formation Frances Neville Baroness Abergavenny
FNBA belonged to the English upper class, and to a network of relations who held or strove for power in the state. Judging by the known political allegiance of her eldest brother, she would have...

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