Anglican Church

AW came from a wealthy and socially prominent Protestant Irish landowning family; she was the god-daughter of the Irish nationalist Henry Grattan . Her family life was intellectual and enlightened, as well as prosperous: the...

The daughter of a radical Anglican , AW was herself a materialist and thus also an atheist.

AW 's father, Nicholas Milley Doyle , was a radical Anglican, who became, however, a prebendary in the Church of Ireland .

DW was an Englishwoman born into the professional middle class. She was an Anglican in religion, who wrote: Life without God is meaningless—for me at any rate, and, during the first months of the...

DW was arrested for repeatedly interrupting an Anglican service at Weymouth.

She addressed it especially to the Anglican congregation of St Paul's Cathedral—which may mean she had caused some disturbance there.

Nothing is known of her family except that they were Anglicans . They probably belonged somewhere in the English middling classes.

A romantic sense of her own identity as a white, Christian (apparently Anglican ) Englishwoman seems to inform those of RW 's fictions that fulminate against mixed marriages or liaisons, which she presented as socially...

She was baptised an Anglican , and her Anglican family disowned her when she joined the Society of Friends . Her conversion, which made her the first Londoner to join the Quakers, probably happened around...

Joan's daughter, Susannah , was born about 1662, and in youth attended the local Anglican church, which later, after becoming a Quaker , she came to regard as that abominable House, where they commit their...

JW , a Londoner with possible Welsh heritage, was a restless seeker after religious truth, apparently throughout her life. She sometimes dressed in sackcloth and ashes as a mark of penitence, for as much as...

She was buried, according to her own instructions in the garden of Mathias Perkins , her executor, beside the main road in Twickenham, across from the theatre. Her burial place was magnificently marked, in...

When AW felt her self close to death, she had the Church of England 's office of the Communion of the Sick performed in her bedroom, being too weak to get up.

AW was a Welshwoman born into a professional family deep in the Pembrokeshire countryside. Belief in second sight flourished there, and it seems that AW herself as an adult (though a devout Anglican ) believed...

Her writings evince considerable pride in being Welsh as well as a certain chauvinism with respect to the English. Though not a native speaker, she learned Welsh while still young. She had prominent Nonconformist ancestors...