Anglican Church

George Hickes included in A Second Collection of Controversial LettersA Letter Written by a Gentlewoman of Quality to a Romish Priest: that is, by SH to Henry Turberville on choosing the Anglican over...

The class difference between this pair is figured in the religion of their respective fathers, which each has rejected. Colthurst's father was a fashionable preacher who regularly packed his Anglican church; Jenny's is an ex-seaman...

A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...

She came of ecclesiastical families on both sides. Her male relations had risen high in the Church, and were gentry with links to the aristocracy. But despite their connections, her father's death ensured that she...

LRR was born to an English father and French mother, both of the nobility. She was a devout Anglican .

From her writings, it appears that she was a member of the merchant or trading classes, of Anglican religion and conservative political opinions.

CL was a member of a pious middle-class evangelical Anglican family who were presumably white and of English descent. She herself was a devoted Christian who participated in evangelical and missionary endeavours.

Brought up in the Church of England , she drew deeply on her religious faith at such terrible times as that in India when her first husband died, or that in New Zealand when...

JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...

MWD came from the rural middle class, from middle England and the established church . Her father not only owned his land but even considered himself a gentleman (though neither his income nor, probably, his...

She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose...

The Webster children were baptised Presbyterian s, as befitted their Scottish heritage, but attended the local Anglican parish church. Flora was the only one of the family to be confirmed as an Anglican.

EAB was baptised into the Church of England . Her religious belief was broad-minded, liberal, tolerant. Faced with the Evangelical tendencies of the family of her future husband, who disapproved of many of her Sunday...

Her parents were both Scots of the professional classes, with links on each side to the nobility, which AH emphasizes at a date when she had married into the latter class.AH was a...

She asserted that she had never been a believing Christian, though she was steeped in the music and architecture of Anglicanism and the culture of Christianity in general. She voiced her adult beliefs as:...