Anglican Church

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Cultural formation Emily Brontë
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...
Cultural formation Emily Faithfull
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,
Stone, James S. Emily Faithfull: Victorian Champion of Women’s Rights. P. D. Meany.
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resenting the constraints placed on her...
Cultural formation Susanna Hopton
The result of her studies was that she rejoined the Church ofEngland in about 1660.
Cultural formation Harriet Hamilton King
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 ...
Cultural formation Louisa Anne Meredith
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...
Cultural formation Sarah, Lady Piers
SLP was born into the English gentry. Her poetry makes it clear that she was a pious Anglican , a convinced Whig, and a patriotic supporter of the Protestant succession.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Allegations by Delarivier Manley that...
Cultural formation Anna Sewell
After seriously injuring her ankle at the age of fourteen, AS was dependent on horses for mobility for the rest of her life. Her gratitude towards these animals, coupled with the Quaker and Rousseauvian values...
Cultural formation Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Potter (later BW ) underwent a religious crisis in late adolescence; she experienced a short-lived conversion to traditional Anglican Christianity in 1875. After that she returned to looking for alternatives—Buddhism and other Eastern religions...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Despite her clear statement of her father's Jewish ethnicity (and his Portuguese national heritage: she calls herself the daughter of a Portugueze),
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. The Wanderings of the Imagination. B. Crosby.
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she was baptised into the Church of England on 4...
Cultural formation Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
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...
Cultural formation Rosamond Lehmann
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...
Cultural formation Dorothy Leigh
DL came from the English gentry class. She was anti-Catholic, leaning towards the Puritan arm of the Anglican church.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Cultural formation Pandita Ramabai
While living with the Anglican sisterhood at Wantage inBerkshire, PR was baptised into the Church ofEngland by William Butler , together with her daughter, Manorama. She took the name Mary Rama.
Blumhofer, Edith L. “From India’s Coral Strand: Pandita Ramabai and U. S. Support for Foreign Missions”. The Foreign Mission Enterprise at Home, edited by Daniel H. Bays and Grant Wacker, University of Alamaba Press, pp. 152-70.
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Adhav, Shamsundar Manohar. Pandita Ramabai. Christian Literature Society.
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Maiorani, Arianna. “Pandita Ramabai (1858-1922)”. Great Women Travel Writers: From 1750 to the Present, edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp, Continuum, pp. 113-25.
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Cultural formation Elizabeth Smith
She was confirmed in the Church ofEngland in December 1791, and a letter written her by Henrietta Maria Bowdler on that occasion shows how seriously this was taken both as a spiritual experience and as...
Cultural formation Mary Frances Billington
English by birth and presumably white, she was raised in the Church of England , a religious upbringing that reflected her father's and grandfather's occupations as Church of England clergymen.
Tuson, Penelope. The Queen’s Daughters: An Anthology of Victorian Feminist Writings on India, 1857-1900. Ithaca Press, http://University of Waterloo - Porter.
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From her final book-length...

Timeline

23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...

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23 December 1919

The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...

23 December 1919: The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as...

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23 December 1919

The Enabling Act was given Royal Assent as the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act: this gave the Church of England greater control over its own affairs, thereby reducing the power of the institutional connection...

31 March 1920: The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished...

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31 March 1920

The Welsh Disestablishment Bill, which disestablished the Anglican Church in Wales, came into effect.

1921: Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's physician,...

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1921

Lord Dawson of Penn , the King's physician, advocated birth control on medical, social and especially personal grounds
Brookes, Barbara. Abortion in England: 1900-1967. Croom Helm.
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in his address to a Church of England congress in Birmingham.

15 June 1928: A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the...

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15 June 1928

A new Book of Common Prayer, on which the Church of England had been working for years and which among other details deleted the word obey from women's marriage vows, was rejected by Parliament .

October 1928: The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican...

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October 1928

The Church Militant, a feminist Anglican monthly, ended publication in London.

1936: The Church of England Archbishops' Commission...

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1936

The Church of EnglandArchbishops' Commission on Women and the Ministry drew its conclusions and published its report.

After June 1936: Under the Tithe Act, the British government...

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After June 1936

Under the Tithe Act, the British government paid the Church of England something over seventy-two million pounds in lieu of the tithes it would have received over the next sixty years. But payment of tithes...

1942: The Anglican Church relaxed its expectation...

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1942

The Anglican Church relaxed its expectation that women should invariably wear hats in church.

1944: The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall, ordained...

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1944

The Bishop of Hong Kong, Dr R. V. Hall , ordained the first Anglican woman priest, Lei Tim Oi . Hall's church colleagues, however, asked her to resign, and she did so in 1946.

1944: Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi was ordained...

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1944

Deaconess Florence Li Tim Oi was ordained by Bishop R. O. Hall as the first woman Anglican minister in the world.

1958: The Lambeth Conference of bishops from the...

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1958

The Lambeth Conference of bishops from the Church of England gave its seal of approval to the practice of birth control.

2 December 1960: Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher, Archibishop...

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2 December 1960

Pope John XXIII met Dr Fisher , Archibishop of Canterbury, at the Vatican.

11 October 1962: Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican...

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11 October 1962

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church .

After 5 March 1971: Following an important meeting of the Anglican...

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After 5 March 1971

Following an important meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council at Limuru in Kenya, the bishop of Hong Kong and Macao (the diocese in which Florence Li was in 1944 ordained the world's first female...

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