Anglican Church

BB was fined the huge sum of £280 for non-attendance at the Church of England services in her parish.

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...

She was brought up a Baptist (baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to...

EB published many works of a religious or moral cast: these include The Land of Far-Beyond, 1942 (later editions of which omit the hyphen), which is a modern, juvenile adaptation of Bunyan 's Pilgrim's...

PB was confirmed into the Anglican Church while attending St John the Baptist School in New York City.

PB was the daughter of an Anglican minister. After a struggle between her High- and Low-Church training, PB was confirmed at her High Anglican or Episcopalian boarding school in New York. In her twenties...

HMB 's elder brother, John, trained as a lawyer but won modest fame as a Church of England writer. A memoir of him was published by one of his sons, another Thomas, in 1824. The...

EB 's parents were Anglo-Irish landowners; hers was an upper-middle-class, Protestant Unionist family. Her paternal ancestors, the apOwens, had come to Ireland from Wales with Oliver Cromwell's army at the time of the English Civil...

Her biographer Victoria Glendinning believes that her Anglicanism was more than merely social, and cites her indignation over the modernising of services in the Book of Common Prayer, and her speaking up in support...

She was a strong proponent of the Anglican Church .

While at her garden altar, she experienced a confused sense of something wrong with her worship and so her kept her rituals a profound secret from her parents. Guilt eventually drove her to destroy...

WLB 's sonnets, which formed the basis of his reputation as a poet, first appeared in 1789, five years after those of Charlotte Smith and shortly after her lavish, illustrated fifth edition. Bowles always denied...

EB was English, urban, presumably white, and of the middling sort. It is probable from the support she received that her lowest Condition of Fortune was something that happened to her, not something she was...

MEB 's mother, the daughter of a Catholic father and Protestant mother, was from county Cavan in Ireland. She brought up her daughter as a Protestant Anglican , but Mary Elizabeth was later tolerant...

Despite its sensational plot and purple prose, MEB 's first attempt at infusing a touch of poetry and the subjective into her writing through character painting does result in greater character development than in...