Anglican Church

At Cadiz in Spain, OE had a spiritual reawakening which he calls conversion, after which he worshipped as a Methodist as well as an Anglican . His conversion came as the climax and resolution...

She was English, a descendant of the Palmer family of Wingham inKent. Although they claimed to have some aristocratic forebears (notably the Roman Catholic, Jacobite diplomatist Roger Palmer, Earl of Castlemaine ),

Alice Thompson (later AM ) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English...

After this decisive step the former bickering and negotiation continued. Two women visited her, very likely at the instigation of their husbands, to beg her to stay. After a couple of months, however, this church...

FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.

Her religious upbringing provided some exposure to Catholicism, which attracted her. By her mid-twenties she found herself in much perplexity about my religion . . . and I could not find rest for my soul...

Little is known of ET 's background. She was English, presumably white, and her writing shows that she was a member of the middling ranks. From the opinions clearly voiced in her poetry, she must...

FAR came from the English middle class. She was an Anglican in religion. Mary Russell Mitford represents her as a young teacher taking a relaxed attitude to religious ideas in literary contexts (her students were...

EI took after her mother in being personally very devout as an adult, though she was nearly twenty when for the first time she aprehended or took seriously to heart a sermon as applying to...

From the views expressed in her novels, EBL appears to have been an Anglican of Evangelical outlook and Quaker sympathies.

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

Her family was rooted in Yorkshire and in a Liberal, Nonconformist background. Her parents, however, became Anglicans and considered themselves Conservatives. With generations of involvement in the textile trade behind them, they belonged, in her...

KP came on both sides from middle-class Puritan English families. Though she married another Puritan, she grew increasingly Anglican and royalist. Though born a Londoner, she entered whole-heartedly into the Welsh identity...

In religion RNC was an earnest HighAnglican . Her friend Helen Marion Burnside said she had never known a writer who so consistently lived her religion, to the extent of putting family duties before her writing.

AS belonged to the Anglican genteel or middle ranks. She had small tolerance for Dissenters. Critic Harriet Guest summarizes her political position as polite and provincial whiggery.