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...

After this decisive step the former bickering and negotiation continued. Two women visited her, very likely at the instigation of their husbands, to beg her to stay. After a couple of months, however, this church...

He was born into an English family of comfortable middle-class means, who were devout practising High Church Anglican s. From at least his student days it seems that Gerard was attracted chiefly if not exclusively...

JW was born into the English middle class and the established Church. The careers of her male relatives suggest the upper middle class, while her own employment suggests the lower middle class.

She was brought up as an Anglican , but converted first to Wesleyan Methodism (in which her mother had shown some interest) and later to Quakerism .

AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. She...

MM was born into the American professional class. She decided to become a Christian (an Episcopalian ) when she was nearly nine, as a gesture of rebellion against the freethinking of her parents. She...

She was born into a well-educated, strictly Anglican family. Both her grandfathers were clergymen and most of her brothers had distinguished careers in public life. Her father's position as a prominent solicitor and land agent...

One of her students, however, remembered her as combining Socialism with High Anglicanism : a person full of awe for the unknown and unknowable.

EB 's parents were Anglo-Irish landowners; hers was an upper-middle-class, Protestant Unionist family. Her paternal ancestors, the apOwens, had come to Ireland from Wales with Oliver Cromwell's army at the time of the English Civil...

In her later life MLC was an earnestly Anglican Englishwoman; she came from the gentry class. Yet her family partook significantly of Dissenting and anti-monarchist traditions.

She was Anglo-Irish, born into the Protestant (Church of Ireland ) land-owning class. This group at this date produced a number of individuals who sought the political, religious, and technological reform of Irish society...

EG 's family were English, Anglican , and evidently upper middle class. The two youngest children ate their regular meals in the nursery with their Nanna, then after dinner were summoned by an electric...