Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Alethea Lewis
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&gt”;. Women’s Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, Garland, pp. 107-22.
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Cultural formation 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...
Cultural formation Anna Eliza Bray
AEB 's father's family was Anglican .

Timeline

16 August 1851: Harriet Brownlow Byron founded the Anglican...

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16 August 1851

Harriet Brownlow Byron founded the AnglicanSociety of All Saints Sisters of the Poor at 67 Mortimer Street in the town of London Colney in Hertfordshire.

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...

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November 1860

Thomas Hill Green became one of the first laymen to hold a fellowship at Balliol College .

18 July 1862: The Bishop of London, Archibald Campbell...

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18 July 1862

The Bishop of London, Archibald Campbell Tait , set apartElizabeth Ferard to be a deaconess in the Anglican Church , and to head an Order of Deaconesses, even though no such order as yet officially existed.

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...

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January 1876

The monthly Friendly Leaves, published in London, began as the first magazine of the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .

1880: The Church of England Zenana Missionary Society...

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1880

January 1880: The GFS Advertiser, devoted to the moral...

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January 1880

The GFS Advertiser, devoted to the moral welfare of young women, began publishing from the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .

January 1881: India's Women, the magazine of the Church...

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January 1881

India's Women, the magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society , began monthly publication in London.

1883: The Church Schools Company was founded in...

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1883

The Church Schools Company was founded in London.

January 1883: Friendly Work began monthly (later quarterly)...

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January 1883

Friendly Work began monthly (later quarterly) publication in London from the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .

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