Anglican Church

Brought up as an atheist, FW belonged for most of her life to no organized religion, but admitted to believing in manifestations like ghosts haunting the scenes of terrible or painful events (terrors in a...

She was by birth an Englishwoman of the professional class dependent on the nobility, politically monarchist and presumably Anglican .

Of Irish and English descent, Emily was raised in the Church of England as the daughter of a clergyman. Almost nothing is known directly of her personality and opinions; one biographer characterizes her as secretive...

EF came from an upper-middle-class, Anglican family. While her childhood was apparently happy, she chafed at the restrictions imposed by her father, brothers, and other figures of authority, resenting the constraints placed on her...

SS was an Englishwoman born into a family in which a high proportion of the men became clergymen in the Church ofEngland .

The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland in about 1660.

Very little is known about her early life. Presumably white, she was born to an upper-class family with relations in the peerage, Scottish on both sides. Late in life she converted to Roman Catholicism ...

LAM had a dual class background: her mother came from a professional family and her father from a working-class one, though he latterly worked more with his head than his hands. They were of English...

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

Despite her clear statement of her father's Jewish ethnicity (and his Portuguese national heritage: she calls herself the daughter of a Portugueze), she was baptised into the Church of England on 4...

Her High Anglican family was well-positioned in the English middle class at the time of her birth, but although her father had aspirations to rise higher, the opposite happened. They became more and more short...

RL came from a family well-established among England's upper-middle-class cultural elite, and regarded herself as English. She descended on her mother's side from one of New Hampshire's early lieutenant-governors, and on her father's from European...

HM had almost no contact with the Methodists, but despite her strong commitment to the Church of England she was broadly tolerant of classical Nonconformity . During the Blagdon controversy she admitted in a letter...

Brought up an Anglican , she was initially disturbed at the King 's execution. In the bloody City of London she lived like the prodigal son after his riotous period had ended, feeding ....

JC , daughter of Welsh and English parents, came from the lower middle class (she mentions her humble station). She grew up with her father's fierce critiques of Anglican practice, yet attended Anglican...