Anglican Church

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Cultural formation May Sinclair
Deane invested considerable time and effort, around early 1894, attempting to persuade MS out of her unorthodox questioning and back to the Anglican church. Sinclair, however, found that she could not accept the existence of...
Cultural formation Charlotte Maria Tucker
CMT came from a large, highly literate, dynamic, Anglican family that enjoyed the London social scene. Her father was a high-ranking civil servant who had spent much of his adult life in India. Her pseudonym...
Cultural formation Hélène Barcynska
She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican , she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...
Cultural formation Lady Charlotte Bury
Charlotte was a member of the Scottish nobility on the side of her father (a duke). She had the example before her of her beautiful mother's dramatic rise into that class (from impoverished Irish gentry...
Cultural formation Richmal Crompton
RC was born into the English middle class. She remained committed to the Conservative Party and the Church of England throughout her life, though her religious belief must surely have been complicated by her interest...
Cultural formation Agnes Giberne
AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...
Cultural formation Sophia Hume
SH , religiously awakened by a dangerous brush with smallpox, converted from Anglicanism and joined the Society of Friends .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Cultural formation Anna Margaretta Larpent
AML was born in the English gentry or professional class, with close connections to Hungarian nobility. In religion she was a pious, serious-minded Anglican .
Vickery, Amanda. The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England. Yale University Press.
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Most diary entries for the year 1790 open: Rose...
Cultural formation Margaret Minifie
The Minifies had bought Fairwater House (now rebuilt and forming part of Taunton School ) in the early eighteenth century. They belonged to the Church of England and to the gentry or professional class. Margaret...
Cultural formation Margaret Roberts
She grew up as a member of the Church of England .
Cultural formation Julia Stretton
She was born into the English middle class, and became a sincere and earnest Anglican . She grew up in an industrial, working-class area, in which her family was clearly marked out as superior to...
Cultural formation Annie Besant
AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...
Cultural formation Barbara Cartland
BC , English on both sides, claimed to be able to trace her paternal lineage to the fifteenth century and her maternal one to the eleventh. Her biographer, Tim Heald , however, points that her...
Cultural formation Mary Angela Dickens
She was baptised in the Church of England but by 1912, MAD had converted to Catholicism . Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Griffith
EG came from the professional class, and from the special milieu of the theatre. She regarded herself as Irish, but lived much of her adult life in England and was of Welsh and English extraction...

Timeline

April 1886: Daybreak, an illustrated magazine of the...

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April 1886

Daybreak, an illustrated magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society , began monthly publication in London.

1891: The White Cross League, a chastity society...

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1891

The White Cross League , a chastity society founded in 1883, merged with the Anglican ChurchChurch of England Purity Society and was henceforth know as the White Cross Society.

1894: The Case for Disestablishment was published...

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1894

The Case for Disestablishment was published by the Liberation Society .

1896: The Church of England formed the Church Reform...

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1896

1897: The Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican...

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1897

The Order of Deaconesses within the Anglican Church (an order of ministry lower than that of priests) was finally recognized by the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops.

1903: The Representative Church Council was created...

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1903

The Representative Church Council was created to advocate for the Church of England 's legislative autonomy from Parliament.

20 April 1904: The Church of Ireland, responding to maltreatment...

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20 April 1904

The Church of Ireland , responding to maltreatment of the Jewish community of Limerick, complained to the British government of the persecution of Protestants and Jews in Ireland.

January 1912: The Church League for Women's Suffrage began...

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January 1912

The Church League for Women's Suffrage began monthly publication in London.

June 1917: The Friendly Work ceased publication in ...

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June 1917

The Friendly Work ceased publication in London.

June 1917: The Friendly Leaves ended publication in...

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June 1917

The Friendly Leaves ended publication in London.

July 1917: GFS Magazine, devoted to the moral welfare...

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July 1917

GFS Magazine, devoted to the moral welfare of young women, began monthly publication in London from the Girls' Friendly Society of the Church of England .

December 1917: The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended...

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December 1917

The Church League for Women's Suffrage ended monthly publication in London.

January 1918: Daybreak, an illustrated monthly magazine...

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January 1918

Daybreak, an illustrated monthly magazine of the Church of EnglandZenana Missionary Society , ended publication in London.

1918: The National Mission of Repentance and Hope,...

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1918

The National Mission of Repentance and Hope , an evangelising organisation created by the Church of England in 1916, published several reports.

1919: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge...

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1919

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge published The Ministry of Women, a report on women's ministry in the Church of England over the last seventy years.

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