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...
Cultural formation
Florence Nightingale
FN
experienced a time of religious rebirth after receiving another call from God on 7 May 1852. That summer and autumn, as her disillusionment with the Anglican
Church increased, she considered becoming a Roman Catholic
Cultural formation
E. Arnot Robertson
Born into the English, presumably white, professional class, she grew up to be highly critical of that class, yet at the same time to continue something of a snob and a racist. These views were...
Cultural formation
Harriet Beecher Stowe
In 1816, HBS
went to stay for a time with her grandmother in a setting widely different from her birth home. Her father's home is described as being Congregational
and democratic in contrast to the...
Cultural formation
Barbara Blaugdone
She was said to have been well-connected, though whether this was through her parents or her husband is likewise unclear. Her contacts suggest that she was at least at ease with the upper classes, and...
Cultural formation
Sarah Chapone
As a country clergyman's daughter SC
was an Anglican
of the English professional class. Her correspondence with John Wesley
bears witness to the strength and immediacy of her Christian faith, but she did not agree...
Cultural formation
Emma Jane Worboise
The Literary World was apparently mistaken in calling EJWthe novelist of Evangelical Dissent and in speculating as to whether or not she ever left the Anglican
Church.
Melnyk, Julie. “Evangelical Theology and Feminist Polemic: Emma Jane Worboise’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Overdale</span>”;. Women’s Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, Garland, pp. 107-22.
109
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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Judith Drake
She seems to have come from the professional class and was probably a strong Anglican
and monarchist.
Cultural formation
Thomas Hardy
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...
Cultural formation
Maria Jane Jewsbury
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...
Cultural formation
Sophia Jex-Blake
Both of SJB
's parents descended from well-established Norfolk families, presumably white, and belonged to the Anglican Church
. Sophia and her siblings were denied many social indulgences in favour of the work expected of...
Cultural formation
Rose Macaulay
Her brother's death impelled her to search in Anglican
ritual, liturgy, and sacraments for a faith to sustain her.
Cultural formation
Eliza Parsons
She was born into the English provincial bourgeois or urban middling ranks, and was presumably white. She was an Anglican
whose staunch commitment to Protestantism, suspicion of other branches of faith, and dogged belief in...
Cultural formation
Edith Templeton
Both Edith's parents were from wealthy, land-owning families. She was educated and influenced by European aesthetics, and prides herself on her cosmopolitanism. Her several languages include English, German, and French; her first was Czech. She...
3 November 1855: An advertisement marked the launch of the...
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3 November 1855
An advertisement marked the launch of the conservative (high Tory
and Anglo-Catholic
), weeklySaturday Review; it focused on Politics, Literature, Science, and Art.
1857: Dean Howson advocated the establishment of...
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1857
Dean Howson
advocated the establishment of an Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican Church
; such an Order was recognized by the Lambeth Conference
of Anglican bishops only in 1897.
November 1860: Thomas Hill Green became one of the first...
26 July 1869: The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime...
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26 July 1869
The Irish Church Act brought forward by Prime Minister Gladstone
disestablished the Church of Ireland
and substantially reduced its property, although it met with strong opposition from the House of Lords
.
1871: The University Test Act abolished all religious...
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1871
The University Test Act abolished all religious tests (of loyalty to the Church of England
) at both ancient universities in England (Oxford
and Cambridge
) for admittance to matriculation, degrees, prizes, and fellowships.
1 January 1871: The Disestablishment Act came into effect;...
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1 January 1871
The Disestablishment Act came into effect; the (Anglican) Church of Ireland
ceased to be a national body on a par with the Church of England.
1875: The British parliament passed the Public...
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1875
The British parliament passed the Public Worship Regulation Act, which was designed to curb the growing enthusiasm in the Church of England
for ritual.
January 1876: The monthly Friendly Leaves, published in...