Anglican Church

She said she was of the middle rank of society, of the old school, both in politics and religion. What she meant by this politically was conservatism: being perfectly satisfied with the powers that be...

She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, while living through her father's successive shifts of belief and witnessing their negative impact on his family and his...

JA 's family had links with the English nobility, but shortage of cash made their gentry status less than wholly secure. JA was a strong Anglican believer.

MG 's family was presumably white; they were upper-middle-class English people, though her mother's family had been Scottish and her father descended from French Huguenot ancestry. Maria grew up influenced to some degree by Whig...

AB came from an Irish and English background, Anglican on both sides. Her father's tireless activity as rector in Haworth and surrounding areas made her a member of a prominent and respectable, if financially strapped...

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.

Her parents were members of the English professional class, and were devout Anglicans .

He came from a white, English, and Anglican family. His father was a successful financier who brought the family up in great comfort at their Essex mansion. The patriarch's death in 1847 left the Morris...

She was born into a well-educated, strictly Anglican family. Both her grandfathers were clergymen and most of her brothers had distinguished careers in public life. Her father's position as a prominent solicitor and land agent...

Born into the English professional class, she was a fevent Anglican , godly from her childhood onwards.

She came from a presumably white family with mixed English, Scottish, and French background on her mother's side, which also had strong literary connections. There is dispute among critics as to how far she was...

Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...

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...

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...

The Anglican baptism of CD 's children may—perhaps—represent a final severing of her Jewish roots.