Anglican Church

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Susan Miles
Ursula Wyllie (later SM ) broke away from her family's Anglican faith and became an idealistic agnostic before her marriage.
Cultural formation Eleanor Sleath
ES belonged to the presumably white, English upper-middle class or minor gentry. She was baptised a member of the Anglican Church , though gothicists Michael Sadleir and Devendra P. Varma , who had different theories...
Cultural formation Adrienne Rich
AR described her subjectivity as split at the root.
qtd. in
Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications, 1999–2002, 17 vols.
13: 253
She was born into the white American professional class, with a Southern Protestant mother and a father who was from the North: a Jew...
Cultural formation Isabella Bird
To dedicate herself to her medical missionary work, she had herself baptized in a ceremony of total immersion. She did not, however, leave the AnglicanChurch for the Baptist church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Marianne Chambers
MC was born into the English professional class and the Anglican religion.
Cultural formation Sarah Green
SG seems from her connections and her writings to have been an Anglican , yet she apparently mustered considerable respect for the far-out fanatical prophet, anti-monarchist Richard Brothers , millenarian and ancestor of the British Israelite
Cultural formation Naomi Jacob
NJ was born, with Jewish and Polish/German heritage, into an English, Yorkshire milieu. Although both parents worked, then or later, in professional occupations they were not wealthy, and even less so after the father lost...
Cultural formation Evelyn Waugh
Born into the English professional class, brought up as a HighAnglican , EW renounced this faith before he left school and spent some years as an atheist before his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1930.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Stovel, Bruce, and Bruce Stovel. “The Genesis of Evelyn Waughs Comic Vision. Waugh, Captain Grimes, and Decline and FallJane Austen and Company: Collected Essays, edited by Nora Foster Stovel and Nora Foster Stovel, University of Alberta Press, 2011, pp. 181-0.
184
Cultural formation Amy Levy
AL was an upper-middle-class Jew from a family which had been English for over a century, though they travelled the world for career purposes more freely than most English people.
Many reference books still repeat...
Cultural formation Catharine Parr Traill
CPT never strayed far from the middle-class English values of her upbringing. Throughout her life she was a faithful and unquestioning Anglican . She has nevertheless achieved the status of a Canadian pioneer foremother. Her...
Cultural formation Flora Shaw
FS was born into the gentry class which populated the higher ranks of the military and diplomatic service. She grew up in touch with both sides of her dual national heritage, French on her mother's...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Ashbridge
She grew up in a pious Anglican household, and confirmed into the Church at thirteen.
Ashbridge, Elizabeth, and Arthur Charles Curtis. Quaker Grey. Astolat Press, 1904.
28
She also loved visiting the poor, and giving them money when she had any; and she was upset when...
Cultural formation Queen Elizabeth I
Brought up both by her teachers and by Katherine Parr in evangelical Protestantism, she developed into a pragmatic Anglican , probably both by conviction and by informed political choice. She exercised her diplomatic skills to...
Cultural formation Nina Hamnett
Born into the English professional class, NH lost no time in becoming cosmopolitan and déclassée. She was brought up to believe that women were worth less than men, though she later discovered that female gender...
Cultural formation Maria Jane Jewsbury
The Jewsbury family was middle-class, English, and white. MJJ was a practising member of the Church of England .
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. “The Hidden Rill: The Life and Career of Maria Jane Jewsbury, I”. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Vol.
66
, No. 2, The Library, 1 Mar.–31 May 1984, pp. 177-03.
180
Howe, Susanne. Geraldine Jewsbury: Her Life and Errors. George Allen and Unwin, 1935.
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Armstrong, Isobel et al., editors. Nineteenth-Century Women Poets. Clarendon Press, 1996.
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